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Leisure and Society | Mary Wollstonecraft | The painter John Opie
did a portrait of her at this time (now in Tate Britain
) which shows her wearing a fashionable, curled white wig. This seems to have been a studio prop, since... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Wickham | After AW
's marriage, Alice Harper returned to London briefly and opened a physiognomy parlour in Regent Street. She also became involved in Annie Besant
's Theosophist movement. Hepburn, James et al. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, pp. 1-48. 12 Wickham, Anna et al. “Fragment of an Autobiography: Prelude to a Spring Clean”. The Writings of Anna Wickham Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, pp. 51-157. 146 A portrait of Alice... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Strachey | They had first met and begun to live together in 1939. Gowing (seventeen years younger than Strachey) was a painter, educator, and critic who acted as a Tate Gallery
trustee, Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown. 159 |
Textual Features | Anne Stevenson | Many of these poems are occasional. Journal Entry: Ward's Island, inscribed to Lauris Edmond
, recalls minus-eighteen-degree weather on the last day of a poetry festival in Toronto in February 1989. (AS
describes... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Freya Stark | FS
's father, Robert Stark
, had left his family at Torquay in Devon to study art in Rome and was on a visit to his uncle's home near Florence, when he met his first... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Grace Nichols | GN
's Paint Me a Poem appeared, containing twenty-six poems for children which are the fruit of her spell as Writer-in-Residence at the Tate Gallery
in 1999-2000 (its final year before becoming Tate Britain
). Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Textual Production | Ling Shuhua | This collection includes her short, unpublished memoir. Her papers also are held by Wuhan University
; the Tate Gallery Archive
; King's College, Cambridge
; and Dartington Library
. These holdings include manuscripts, correspondence, and photographs. Laurence, Patricia Ondek. Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China. University of South Carolina Press. 1-3, 432 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Dixon Le Plongeon | Alice's eldest brother Thomas James
, worked as a photographer with their father, and took over the business after his death. Her brother Harry
was trained in painting and sculpture, and some of his paintings... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Jennings | She includes poems for poets, artists, and thinkers: George Herbert
, Charles Causley
, Philip Larkin
, J. M. W. Turner
, Caravaggio
, Chardin
, Goya
, Hume
, and Descartes
. A sequence... |
Reception | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Elgee's translation gained this novel a wider audience. In later years Dante Gabriel Rossetti
developed a positive passion for it, and it became very popular with the Pre-Raphaelites
. Murray, Isobel. “Sidonia the Sorceress: Pre-Raphaelite Cult Book”. Durham University Journal, Vol. 75 , No. 1, pp. 53-7. 53 |
Leisure and Society | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
was painted several times. The National Portrait Gallery
has a portrait of her and her husband by Ford Madox Brown
, commissioned by family friend and politician Sir Charles Dilke
and painted in 1874... |
Textual Production | Wendy Cope | Many of these poems first appeared in newspapers and periodicals: the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Review, and so on, and one pseudonymously as a submission... |
Author summary | Dora Carrington | DC
is known predominantly for her personal relationships with writer Lytton Strachey
and other members of the Bloomsbury Group, but she produced much striking work—visual and literary—herself. André Derain
and Simon Bussy
gave her... |
Textual Production | Dora Carrington | Carrington's paintings are housed in such institutions as the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
, the Tate Gallery
, the Slade School of Art
, and private collections. Many of her papers, mainly letters and diaries... |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Butts | MB
's mother sold these works by Blake in 1906 in order to pay death-duties—an act which Mary, even at fifteen, fully realised to be a mistake. The paintings are now part of the Blake... |
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