Max Beerbohm

To many of her contemporaries (especially male contemporaries), AM symbolised the perfection of Woman and Mother. Many descriptions of her suggest Woolf 's Mrs Ramsay in To the Lighthouse. Coventry Patmore and Francis Thompson

Writing in the year of its publication, Max Beerbohm argued that the reason for the unusually cordial reception accorded this novel was not (as Ouida's newly warm critics had suggested) that she had...

In An Appreciation of Ouida, Street singled out for praise her genuine and passionate love of beauty . . . and a genuine and passionate hatred of injustice and oppression. Although he noted that...

The book drew a letter of tribute from Max Beerbohm .

At the time Max Beerbohm praised the play in the Saturday Review for its unfeminine willingness to tackle a large subject in serious spirit. On the other hand the writer of GP 's obituary...

The story takes place at Geneva in Switzerland (transferred from the Italian scene of the real-llife original), on an estate owned by a Baron Klopstock, among characters of diverse national origins. The protagonist, Lister the...

By now she had contributed parodies of Max Beerbohm , George Moore , and others.

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...

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...

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

AL 's circle of friends comprised writers and artists who were to lend the . . . decade its peculiarly distinctive air:Max Beerbohm , Aubrey Beardsley , Henry Harland (editor of the...

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...

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...

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

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...