This volume (once owned by Edmund Gosse
) reproduces with very little revision nearly all the poems in the octavo, as well as adding fifty-five more. It also includes AF
's important prose preface, her...
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Sarojini Naidu
In their introductions to her poems, both Symons
and Gosse
paint SN
as the exotic, mysterious Oriental Other. Gosse describes her as to the fullest extent autochthonous . . . spring[ing] from the very...
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Elizabeth Robins
ER
, Marion Lea
, and William Archermodified for stage production Edmund Gosse
's translation of Ibsen
's Hedda Gabler (published earlier the same year).
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995.
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Sarojini Naidu
This volume was introduced by her English champion, Edmund Gosse
, who takes a modest tone in recounting their first meeting, but still takes credit for recognising her talent. He finds that in this volume...
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Toru Dutt
TD
's Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan was published nearly five years after her death with an introductory memoir by noted British critic Edmund Gosse
, who also chose the title for the collection.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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Elizabeth Robins
Heinemann
published an English translation of Ibsen's The Master Builder by William Archer
and Edmund Gosse
; ER
helped with the translation.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995.
HL
first appealed for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund
in 1895. On 14 February that year Walter Besant
wrote a letter on her behalf which emphasized her ill health and friendless condition; Mabel Robinson
Wealth and Poverty
Laurence Alma-Tadema
His income had been high and his family had lived well, with a large London house, servants, and plenty of travel. He left his daughters a trust fund for life, plus a lump sum of...