This friendship led to others for DW
, for on Yeats's later visits she invited people to meet him, including Lord David Cecil
, Sir William Rothenstein
, Rex Whistler
, H. A. L. Fisher
Robert Ross
closed A Note of Explanation which he contributed to the book in a tone of well-meant condescension: if Prospero is dead we value all the more the little memories of Miranda.
Leverson, Ada, and Oscar Wilde. “Reminiscences of the Author”. Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde, Duckworth, pp. 19-49.
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William Rothenstein
Friends, Associates
Nina Hamnett
At this time she began to meet people connected with the modernist movement, like Carrington
and Mark Gertler
. She met and sat for the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
, and she also met the painter...
Friends, Associates
Frances Cornford
She sometimes drew in the studio of painter William Rothenstein
, a friend of her parents. After reading and admiring one of her poems, however, Rothenstein encouraged her to write instead of paint. Frances then...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Intertextuality and Influence
Frances Cornford
The publication of the book was due, in part, to the influence of the painter William Rothenstein
: having read some of Cornford's poetry, he persuaded her father to have a volume of her poems...
Intertextuality and Influence
Frances Cornford
Cornford dedicated the book to William Rothenstein
, who by wise encouragement and discouragement . . . first helped me to find out what I really wanted to create.