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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
lived with the Stephens
after their marriage, and while there became a friend of such literary figures as George Meredith
, Henry James
(who described her after an early encounter as exquisitely irrational)... |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Webster | She made her entry into the city's literary circles with the assistance of Theodore Watts
, later Theodore Watts-Dunton, who was a great supporter of her work and later a colleague at the Athenæum... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Siddal | She met these progressive women, all committed to women's independent work, through Dante Gabriel Rossetti
. They took a strong interest in ES
, whom Smith saw as a genius despite being under a ban... |
Friends, Associates | George Meredith | GM
knew the poets Dante Gabriel Rossetti
and Algernon Swinburne
—he sometimes stayed with them while in London. He also knew Emma Caroline Wood
, Lucie Duff Gordon
, Leslie Stephen
, Anne Thackeray Ritchie |
Friends, Associates | Mary Shelley | MS
also met the leading women writers of her later years: Jane Porter
, Catherine Gore
, Caroline Norton
, and LEL
. She was friendly, too, with Thomas Moore
, Prosper Mérimée
, Washington Irving |
Friends, Associates | Emilie Barrington | EB
probably first met painter George Frederic Watts
before she was married, at the studio of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
. There is some uncertainty as to the date of EB
's first meeting with Watts... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | The artistic pursuits of EG
's daughter Meta produced friendships with John Ruskin
and with Pre-RaphaelitesWilliam Holman Hunt
and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 455 |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | In spring 1854 Barbara Leigh Smith
took care of Elizabeth Siddal
, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
's ailing fiancé and model, at her house near Hastings. Her ties to the Pre-Raphaelite
circle later weakened, but... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | When William
had a poem published in the Athenæum, however, Christina allowed Gabriel
to select and retitle two of her poems for submission. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 88, 106 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Augusta Webster | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margiad Evans | As a story-teller Evans has a sure grasp, making every tiny detail contribute to an effect which is understated but emotionally powerful. The named character in Miss Potts and Music is largely a peg for... |
Intertextuality and Influence | 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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isa Blagden | The final line invokes Wordsworth
's The Female Vagrant, andIB
also echoes Thomas Hood
's Bridge of Sighs and the more general iconography of the fallen woman. This treatment of what it meant... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | The most highly-regarded piece in this collection is Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets (whose title means that it has as many poems as a sonnet has of lines). CR
's preface to this sequence... |
Literary responses | Emily Brontë | This bowdlerized version of EB
's novel and her poetry circulated widely and received many reviews. H. F. Chorley
in the Athenæum pronounced the re-publication of the two novels an illustration of English female genius... |
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