Clara Schumann

Their visitors at Nice included the Chaucerian Francis Child , the American writer Mrs. John (Elizabeth) Farrar , and the political activist Richard Cobden .MCC continued to delight in new acquaintances until late...

Despite her and Lewes's uneven health, they were still able at times to socialise with the likes of Robert Browning , Frederic Leighton , Clara Schumann , Alfred Tennyson , Dean Stanley , J. A. Froude

An older half-sister of EW 's father, Hannah Waller Atkinson , was equally accomplished, having lived for a time in St Petersburg with the pianist at the Imperial Palace. She would eventually translate Pushkin

Her time at the Conservatorium (closely associated with the name of Clara Schumann , who had just left the staff) overlapped with that of Percy Grainger , though not with that of Cyril Scott (later...