He had attended Cambridge
, where he rowed for the University. The first years of their union seem to have been happy.
Hughes, Linda K. “’Fair <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Hymen</span> holdeth hid a world of woes’: Myth and Marriage in Poems by ’Graham R. Tomson’ (Rosamund Marriott Watson)”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
32
, No. 2, pp. 97-120.
97
Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press.
746
Family and Intimate relationships
Rosamond Lehmann
Rudolph Lehmann was a writer and poet, one-time editor of the Daily News, a contributor to (and at times editor of) Punch, founder of Granta (Cambridge University
's magazine), and, briefly, a...
Family and Intimate relationships
Frances Notley
When the couple's son James was admitted to Cambridge University
, his late father was named as gentleman of Combe Sydenham.
Family and Intimate relationships
Frances Burney
The next brother, Charles
, was expelled from Cambridge University
for stealing books from the library, but eventually became respected as a clergyman and a scholar.
Friends, Associates
May Sinclair
In the same period she made two important philosophical friendships: with Anthony Deane
, then a curate, and Henry Melvill Gwatkin
, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge
. Both wanted to bring her back...
Friends, Associates
Virginia Woolf
Thoby Stephen
, VW
's brother, started Thursday Evenings at 46 Gordon Square, mainly so that he could keep in touch with his Cambridge University
friends. These gatherings marked the beginning of what came...
Friends, Associates
Virginia Woolf
While woolgathering for her upcoming Women and Fiction lectures at Cambridge
, VW
met with Jane Ellen Harrison
for the last time; in her diary she described her as very aged & rather exalted.
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press.
Piecing together its intellectual family tree, scholars and critics have looked both forward and back from Bloomsbury. It has been seen as descending from the late eighteenth-century Clapham Sect
(to which VW
's great-grandfather James Stephen
While at Newnham College
, EFB
began her acquaintance with Charlotte Mary Martin
, later Charlotte Wilson
, a forceful young bluestocking with a similar growing dissatisfaction about the political beliefs that she was exposed...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth von Arnim
At Nassenheide, her home in Germany, EA
employed the first of a series of Cambridge
tutors for her children, who famously included future writers E. M. Forster
and Hugh Walpole
.
Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head.
96, 102, 120
Friends, Associates
Elaine Feinstein
At Cambridge
she met a lot of very interesting Jews who were very Zionistic or left-wing or kinds of things like that.
Pacernick, Gary. Meaning and Memory: Interviews with Fourteen Jewish Poets. Ohio State University Press.
186-7
She later met other writers who hailed from Liverpool, like Brian Patten
Intertextuality and Influence
Jane Ellen Harrison
Harrison was always engaged in debates with her colleagues at Cambridge
and elsewhere: her writing here was inspired in part by Gilbert Murray
's unorthodox translation of Euripides
' Hippolytus, published in 1902. Both...