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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 |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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. |
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 |
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 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 |
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 Features | Constance Naden | CN
argues here that absolute knowledge is impossible because of the unavoidable element of subjectivity. Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son. 73 |
Textual Features | Edna O'Brien | There are three characters in this text: Woolf
herself, appearing both in her youth and in maturity; The Man (who represents now her father Leslie Stephen
and now her husband Leonard Woolf
); and Woolf's... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Oliphant | MO
's family and Ritchie went on together to Grindelwald, where Leslie
and Harriet Stephen
(nicknamed Minnie), Ritchie's sister and brother-in-law, joined them. Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press. 104-5 Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press. 120 |
Travel | Margaret Oliphant | Four years later she was in Grindelwald in Switzerland, with Anne Thackeray Ritchie
and Leslie Stephen
. Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press. 104-5 |
Friends, Associates | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
lived with the Stephens
after their marriage, and while there became a friend of such literary figures as George Meredith
, Henry James
(who described her after an early encounter as exquisitely irrational)... |
Residence | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Anne Thackeray and the widowed Leslie Stephen
, with whom she continued to live, moved to 11 Hyde Park Gate South, London. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 178 |