Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago, 1993.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm was IT's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | The writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm was VT's uncle. A son of her grandfather's second marriage, he retained the original surname. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm... |
Friends, Associates | Ada Leverson | AL's circle of friends comprised writers and artists who were to lend the . . . decade its peculiarly distinctive air: Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago, 1993. 27 |
Friends, Associates | G. B. Stern | Other plums were Max Beerbohm, H. G. Wells, Somerset Maugham, J. B. Priestley, and Humbert Wolfe. Questioned by a reporter about the reason for the party, GBS suggested that she... |
Friends, Associates | Rose Macaulay | RM also regularly attended the gatherings of the Friday Hampstead Circle, presided over by Dorothy and Reeve Brooke and later by Sylvia and Robert Lynd. These gatherings were attended by RM's friends... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Mew | In the mid-1890s, CM attended literary gatherings at the home of Henry Harland, editor of The Yellow Book. Other writers who attended included Evelyn Sharp, Netta Syrett, Max Beerbohm, Kenneth Grahame |
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 | Ella Hepworth Dixon | She often stayed with Count and Countess Lützow in Bohemia, where in 1903 she met Sibell, Countess of Cromartie, whom she described as one of my firmest friends ever since. Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson, 1930. 71 |
Friends, Associates | Constance Smedley | In Birmingham CS had become friendly with Coulson Kernahan, through whom she also met Flora Klickmann. Edgar Pemberton brought her acquainted with theatrical figures she deeply admired: Sir Charles Wyndham, and Mary Moore |
Friends, Associates | Lady Ottoline Morrell | LOM continued to entertain in London, hosting such guests as Ethel Smyth, Elizabeth Bowen, Stephen Spender, Max Beerbohm, Hope Mirrlees, Djuna Barnes, Charlie Chaplin, the novelist Henry Green |
Friends, Associates | Julia Frankau | Literary figures regularly seen at JF's afternoon salons included George Moore, Max Beerbohm, Arnold Bennett, Somerset Maugham, Sir William Nicholson, and Sir Henry Irving. It was at one... |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | ES wrote later that at no time in her life did she make intimate friends easily. Most people she had to do with she liked up to a certain point only, but she could count... |
Friends, Associates | Amabel Williams-Ellis | AWE's friends and associates included Edith Sitwell, whose poems she often published in The Spectator; Storm Jameson, a political mentor Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983. 128 |
Friends, Associates | Helen Waddell | Friends from HW's time at Somerville included Maude Clarke, whom she had known as a child and whose Oxford position had been one of the incentives to go there, and archaelogist Helen Lorimer |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ada Leverson | By now she had contributed parodies of Max Beerbohm, George Moore, and others. Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973. 24 |
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