Alice Hoatson

In the same year she contributed some of the contents to a series of four anthologies entitled from the seasons of the year Spring Songs and Sketches and so on, edited by herself and Robert Ellis Mack

Fictionalizing this event years later, she wrote, What a travesty of a wedding-day! Within a year or two of the wedding she found out about Hubert's other sexual commitment; she went to see Maggie Doran

In 1886, the year of EN 's first stillbirth, her close friend Alice Hoatson became her husband's mistress. Alice then moved in with the Blands: ostensibly to help look after their children, since she was...

EN 's husband, Hubert Bland , had a heart attack in November 1910 and the following year he began to lose his sight. Their triangular family life was changed by his giving up many of...

EN first met Alice Hoatson , who became her husband's life-long lover. Biographer Julia Briggs calls Hoatson her intensest and most painful friendship.

From early in her marriage EN began writing seriously for periodicals, for the sake of the income she could bring in. She submitted work in prose and poetry to the radical Weekly Dispatch, The...

EN 's career as a children's writer began in a very small way, with poems and stories to be included in greetings cards or little gift booklets. She and Alice Hoatson were employed by Robert Ellis Mack

The Bland family, with assorted friends, holidayed regularly in boating parties on the Medway; a frequent base was the village of Yalding. In January 1892 EN travelled with Alice Hoatson to Antibes on...