Rosamund Tomson
had ended (at least emotionally speaking) her second marriage and begun a romance with H. B. Marriott Watson
.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Rosamund Marriott Watson
She probably met the handsome Watson
, a novelist who was, like her first husband, an Australian, in 1893 when he attended practices of the cricket team of which he and her second husband were...
Performance of text
Sir J. M. Barrie
James Barrie
's first full-length adult play, Richard Savage (on which he collaborated with H. B. Marriott Watson
), was performed for a charity matinee at the Criterion Theatre
in London.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996.
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Reception
Rosamund Marriott Watson
In introducing The Poems of Rosamund Marriott Watson, H. B. Marriott Watson
calls Taresjuvenilia and suggests that the poet did not set a high value
Watson, H. B. Marriott, and Rosamund Marriott Watson. “Introduction”. The Poems of Rosamund Marriott Watson, John Lane, Bodley Head, 1912, p. vii - ix.
vii
on her earliest publication. The title in...
Reception
Rosamund Marriott Watson
Unfortunately RMW
's partner, H. B. Marriott Watson
, left instructions for most of their personal papers to be burned after his death.
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Residence
Rosamund Marriott Watson
RMW
(then Tomson) left the St John's Wood Road house she shared with her second husband
to live with her lover, H. B. Marriott Watson
, in Westminister.
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Residence
Rosamund Marriott Watson
After this collapse, she moved with H. B. Marriott Watson
and their son to Orchard Cottage at Shere in Surrey, where they settled in by late 1904. They later lived in a house called Vacery.
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Textual Production
Rosamund Marriott Watson
RMW
published under three different names, all variations of those of her husbands and lover. She wrote as R. Armytage, as Graham R. Tomson (hinting at her own name between those of her second...
Textual Production
Rosamund Marriott Watson
Her partner, H. B. Marriott Watson
, also worked for the Athenæum.
Demoor, Marysa. Their Fair Share. Ashgate, 2000.
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Textual Production
Rosamund Marriott Watson
Her longtime partner H. B. Marriott Watson
saw the book through publication; he had hoped in vain for it to be ready before her death in December 1911.
Blain, Virginia, editor. Victorian Women Poets: A New Annotated Anthology. Longman, 2001.
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Texts
Watson, H. B. Marriott, and Rosamund Marriott Watson. “Introduction”. The Poems of Rosamund Marriott Watson, John Lane, Bodley Head, 1912, p. vii - ix.
Barrie, Sir J. M., and H. B. Marriott Watson. Richard Savage. Privately printed, 1891.
Watson, Rosamund Marriott, and H. B. Marriott Watson. The Poems of Rosamund Marriott Watson. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1912.