Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder.
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Friends, Associates | Katharine Tynan | In LondonKT
met the politician William Gladstone
(a supporter of Home Rule for Ireland) at a party given for Charles Parnell
. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder. 328-9 |
Friends, Associates | Queen Victoria | After Benjamin Disraeli
first became Prime Minister, somewhat briefly, on 27 April 1866, Victoria encountered a type of politician which was new to her. Prince Albert had distrusted Disraeli and favoured Gladstone
; Victoria found... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Her newly-made friends from 1887-9 included the writer Israel Zangwill
in London, Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone
and his wife
in Florence. Back in the USA she made another friend-as-collaborator, the dramatic-rights agent Elisabeth Marbury |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
and her husband, Sir Charles Eastlake
, attended Gladstone
's party for the Italian patriot Garibaldi
, who was visiting England. Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press. 2: 181 Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 111 |
Friends, Associates | Sara Coleridge | Among women writers, in addition to Dorothy Wordsworth
, Joanna Baillie
, and Maria Jane Jewsbury
, SC
also knew Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Anna Jameson
, Elizabeth Rigby
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and Harriet Martineau |
Literary responses | Olive Schreiner | The book elicited strong reactions, most of them positive. It was highly praised by Philip Kent
, who wrote a long article about it instead of his usual shorter reviews in Life, a weekly... |
Literary responses | B. M. Croker | BMC
was charmed to see myself in print, but . . . awaited with terror the reviews. She hoped, in fact, that a certain great weekly journal (probably All the Year Round, formerly Household... |
Literary responses | Louisa Catherine Shore | Elegies was praised by Robert Browning
, George Meredith
, and William Gladstone
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Shore, Arabella. First and Last Poems. Grant Richards. v |
Literary responses | Emily Lawless | Hurrish was EL
's most commercially successful work of fiction. Sichel noted that it made an instantaneous effect Sichel, Edith. “Emily Lawless”. Nineteenth Century, Vol. 76 , pp. 80-100. 85 |
Literary responses | Annie S. Swan | Aldersyde was well reviewed. ASS
sent a copy to Gladstone
(she says he was then engaged in an election campaign for his parliamentary seat of Midlothian, though the dates do not seem to fit)... |
Literary responses | Daphne Du Maurier | Rebecca was DDM
's best known work, earning her massive profits, and it has become one of the most widely read novels of all time. Kelly, Richard. Daphne du Maurier. Twayne. 66 |
Literary responses | Emily Lawless | William Ewart Gladstone
originally took With Essex in Ireland to be an authentic account. Edith Sichel
suggests that it required Homeric naïveté and immense power of belief to take it for a contemporary document, but... |
Literary responses | George Eliot | Cross
, concerned to protect and dignify her, chose the more sententious passages and excluded the spontaneous, trivial, and humorous remarks Eliot, George. “Preface”. The George Eliot Letters, edited by Gordon S. Haight, Yale University Press, p. 1: ix - lxxvii. xiv |
Literary responses | Anna Swanwick | Her work was greeted with a chorus of praise from reviewers: the only quibble, from some, referred to her metrical choices. P. H. Wicksteed
in the Saturday Review suggested that AS
would advance the cause... |
Literary responses | Constance Naden | Despite some good reviews, CN
's two volumes of poems had made comparatively little impact until Gladstone
drew new attention to them in the Speaker while writing on current poetry. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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