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Family and Intimate relationships | Rosamond Lehmann | Rudolph Lehmann was a writer and poet, one-time editor of the Daily News, a contributor to (and at times editor of) Punch, founder of Granta (Cambridge University
's magazine), and, briefly, a... |
Friends, Associates | Rudyard Kipling | RK
liked to build friendships with men of action as well as intellectuals. During his years in Vermont he became a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt
(then the Under Secretary of the US Navy) and... |
Friends, Associates | May Sinclair | On this tour she met both with President Theodore Roosevelt
and with Mark Twain
. Zegger, Hrisey Dimitrakis. May Sinclair. Twayne, 1976. 23 |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | While touring America, AG
not only renewed her relationship with John Quinn
and met Jane Addams
, but also met Theodore Roosevelt
, a great supporter of the Abbey, and President Taft
. Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum, 1985. 229-30 |
Literary responses | Augusta Gregory | The collection was widely admired when it first appeared in print. Yeats
praised it in his preface as the best book that has come out of Ireland in my time qtd. in McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525. xxviii |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | The war had a great impact on MAW
's career as a journalist. Owing to Theodore Roosevelt
's belief that she would be helpful in swaying American opinion in favour of joining the war, she... |
politics | Ezra Pound | EP
, who had become a supporter of Mussolini
's Fascist state, began making regular radio broadcasts on Rome Radio to America which were both antisemitic and condemnatory of President Roosevelt
. Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1. xxv “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Textual Production | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
's report on the battle-front of the First World War—England's Effort: Six Letters to an American Friend (penned at the request of Theodore Roosevelt
)—appeared in print. The text is available at the Victorian Women Writers Project
. Willett, Perry, and Perry Willett, editors. “Victorian Women Writers Project”. Indiana University. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 418 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 18 |
Textual Production | Mary Augusta Ward | On 27 December 1915, former American President Theodore Roosevelt
asked MAW
to describe to the American people the military activities and achievements of the Allies. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 350 |
Travel | John Oliver Hobbes | JOH
travelled extensively, often in her role as a now-famous author. She had first revisited the United States, after leaving it as a baby, in May 1886. Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray, 1911. 12 |