Swanson, Vern G. The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Garton, 1990.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Ella Hepworth Dixon | Her mother was Irish, but EHD
admitted to having little knowledge of her maternal antecedents. She wrote: I have never been in Ireland and know little about them except from novels and the Abbey... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laurence Alma-Tadema | Laura Alma-Tadema was the daughter of the homoeopathic doctor George Napoleon Epps
. Her sister Ellen
married Edmund Gosse
. Childless herself, she was a loving mother to her stepdaughters. Swanson, Vern G. The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Garton, 1990. 95 |
Friends, Associates | Alice Meynell | Following her early conquest of Tennyson
, AM
went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan
, Aubrey Beardsley
(while he... |
Friends, Associates | Flora Annie Steel | One dinner-party at William Heinemann
's featured the artist James McNeill Whistler
(whose paintings were much in evidence on the walls), Edmund Gosse
and his wife
, FAS
and her daughter, and Catharine Amy Dawson Scott |
Friends, Associates | Mathilde Blind | Other important friends include Dr Louis Mond
, the American Moncure Conway
(who had lost a position at Harvard
for preaching against slavery), Richard Garnett
(who began calling her by her first name in 1870)... |
Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | ES
had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened... |
Friends, Associates | Sarojini Naidu | SN
met a number of notable English literary figures at Miss Manning's accommodations, and particularly Arthur Symons
and Edmund Gosse
, both of whom helped her to launch her literary career. |
Friends, Associates | Frances Cornford | Frances's association with Rupert Brooke
began with the rehearsals for the play and grew into friendship. They discussed their poetry with each other, and Frances counselled and consoled Rupert in his many love affairs. She... |
Friends, Associates | Coventry Patmore | CP
's early contacts included Alfred Tennyson
, Robert Browning
, Thomas Carlyle
, Ralph Waldo Emerson
, and John Ruskin
. Later in life, he knew Gerard Manley Hopkins
and Edmund Gosse
. Among... |
Friends, Associates | Walter Pater | 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 |
Friends, Associates | John Oliver Hobbes | She made many friends and acquaintances both as a figure in society and as an author. These included literary people such as George Meredith
, Thomas Hardy
, Punch editor Owen Seaman
, William Archer |
Friends, Associates | Michael Field | They made a friend of George Meredith
some time before 1890 and visited him often. Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray, 1933. 66 |
Friends, Associates | Jean Ingelow | JI
had a small but distinguished circle of intimate friends. By 1863 she was a friend of Alfred Tennyson
and was also close to Dora Greenwell
. She admired and respected Robert Browning
(though she... |
Friends, Associates | Henry James | HJ
's circle of acquaintance in the world of letters and the theatre was very wide. As well as men of letters such as Edmund Gosse
, it included a great many women writers, among... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Augusta Ward | She met a number of important writers through her newspaper work. She associated with Alexander Macmillan
, Sir George Grove
, Edmund Gosse
and his wife Ellen
, John Morley
, and her uncle Matthew Arnold |