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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | George Meredith | GM
knew the poets Dante Gabriel Rossetti
and Algernon Swinburne
—he sometimes stayed with them while in London. He also knew Emma Caroline Wood
, Lucie Duff Gordon
, Leslie Stephen
, Anne Thackeray Ritchie |
Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | Over the years, RM
published several dozen literary articles in a wide range of magazines, newspapers, and commemorative volumes. She wrote on past and contemporary literary figures, including Leslie Stephen
, Stella Benson
, Rebecca West |
Travel | Vernon Lee | VL
was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson
and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen
, Robert Browning |
Textual Features | Q. D. Leavis | QDL
's thesis was influenced by various sources as well as her husband's dissertation. As Ian MacKillop
notes, her work recalls Wordsworth
's campaign against the gross and violent stimulants MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 140 |
Textual Production | Thomas Hardy | This time the title comes from Thomas Gray
. Sir Leslie Stephen
was responsible for the acceptance of this novel, which is remarkable for its independent-minded, property-owning heroine. |
Friends, Associates | Thomas Hardy | His many literary acquaintances in London included Sir Leslie Stephen
, Anne Thackeray Ritchie
, and Adelaide Procter
. Gittings, Robert. Young Thomas Hardy. Penguin. 274-5, 278 |
Friends, Associates | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | During these years she met some leading liberal thinkers, such as John Stuart Mill
(whom she heard in the House as he moved his suffrage amendment to the Reform Bill on 20 May 1867, less... |
Literary responses | Anne Damer | Respect for her work as an artist continued to be voiced through the nineteenth century. Where she was criticised (by Leslie Stephen
in the Dictionary of National Biography, for instance) it was not directly... |
Education | Dorothy Bussy | Marie Souvestre was a free-thinking feminist, daughter of the French author and philosopher Emile Souvestre
. Her school, Les Ruches, was widely admired for its academic rigour. It educated many outstanding women, including Beatrice Chamberlain |
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