Algernon Charles Swinburne

The historical Sappho had emerged by this date as a potentially lesbian or bisexual figure, for instance in the work of Swinburne ; Michael Field 's Long Ago was published this same year. Dawson's Sappho...

In England, Swinburne helped promote a newly sexualized and aestheticized Sappho with Anactoria in Poems and Ballads (1866).

LMS 's earliest works, which emerged from a romantic sense of beauty, defined her for decades of readers. In the first phase of her writing career, from 1900 to about 1915, she sought the delicate...

Praise for this second public collection was more muted and criticism more probing than before. John Westland Marston , reviewing this volume too for the Athenæum, was still positive, but regretted that most of...

CR 's critical reputation stood very high from the appearance of Goblin Market, although she was not a popular poet. H. Buxton Forman in Our Living Poets, 1871, got her middle name wrong...

In her preface she claims the ballad and other popular poetic forms as the especial territory of women writers. Although her poems, says this preface, lack the splendour of Byron or Hugo , or the...

Anne Thackeray (later ATR ) spent Easter at Richard Monckton Milnes 's home, where she met Swinburne .

ATR and her sister were educated by a series of governesses in London. It was not until the arrival of Miss Truelock in 1850 that their father was finally satisfied with a governess's ability...

The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family...

From his time at BrasenoseWP knew Oscar Browning . In Oxford and London he socialized with Edmund Gosse , Algernon Charles Swinburne , Simeon Solomon , Oscar Wilde , Vernon Lee , A. Mary F. Robinson

MPD published a biography about the domestic life of Algernon Charles Swinburne and Theodore Watts-Dunton , entitled At The Pines: Swinburne and Watts-Dunton in Putney.

MPD recreates the odd household of Watts-Dunton and Swinburne in Putney, the backwoods of West London, and a house called The Pines. Swinburne's imprudences had reduced his health and finances and made...

Aside from her mother, Ouida kept mainly male company. Her circle included (in addition to her publishers William Harrison Ainsworth and William Tinsley ) A. C. Swinburne , Richard Monckton Milnes (famed for his large...

Critic Kenneth Churchill argues that Ouida was the first English writer to chronicle the sense of growing disillusion with the practical outcomes of the new state established in Italy by the Risorgimento. She...

She may have had the help or collaboration of Swinburne during its conception (many years before its eventual publication). They probably met on 17 August 1858 at Wallington in Northumberland. They both stayed there...