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Cultural formation | Naomi Mitchison | NM
's mother brought her up as agnostic and she was aesthetically repelled by Presbyterianism. However, she felt tensions in herself between the Haldane scientific rationalism and an irrational streak of her own, which connected... |
Education | Susan Tweedsmuir | She was, however, always reading as a child: she and her sister had few books, but knew by heart whole chapters of the ones they did have. As a child Susan hated Mrs Mortimer
's... |
Education | Iris Tree | In her early childhood, she read Andrew Lang
's fairy tales, and particularly his Brown Fairy Book (1904). She learned history from the plays of Shakespeare
, with which she became familiar in her many... |
Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothea Du Bois | This most sensational trial of the mid-century was reported in detail by the Gentleman's Magazine the following year, and used in more or less avowed fictions by Eliza Haywood
in Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young... |
Friends, Associates | Martin Ross | While in Scotland she met Andrew Lang
, who questioned her about her role in her joint authorship with Somerville; she was impressed with his personal knowledge of people she regarded as real authors. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968. 104 |
Friends, Associates | Alice Meynell | Following her early conquest of Tennyson
, AM
went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan
, Aubrey Beardsley
(while he... |
Friends, Associates | Rhoda Broughton | RB
's vitality, sincerity, and pungent wit gained her the friendship of some of the most notable people of her day. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
Friends, Associates | Violet Hunt | Friends of VH
's family included John Ruskin
, Edward Burne-Jones
, John Millais
, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, Robert Browning
, and Christina Rossetti
, who read Violet's early poems. VH
also met and... |
Friends, Associates | Rosamund Marriott Watson | Andrew Lang
played an important role in introducing Rosamund Tomson to literary circles, where she became known not only for her talent, but also for her beauty. Linda K. Hughes
calls her the female counterpart... |
Friends, Associates | Rosamund Marriott Watson | According to Angela Leighton
, the social scandal that erupted in the wake of RMW
's adultery and second divorce not only created a rift in private between the writer and many of her friends... |
Friends, Associates | May Kendall | MK
began publishing in 1885. During this decade she became friends with classical scholar and poet Andrew Lang
, who advanced her career as a writer. Birch, Catherine Elizabeth. Evolutionary Feminism in Late-Victorian Women’s Poetry: Mathilde Blind, Constance Naden and May Kendall. University of Birmingham, Apr. 2011. 60 |
Intertextuality and Influence | May Kendall | Lang
encouraged her to publish, as well as offering commentary on her poetry and printing her poems in his Longman's column, At the Sign of the Ship. Birch, Catherine Elizabeth. Evolutionary Feminism in Late-Victorian Women’s Poetry: Mathilde Blind, Constance Naden and May Kendall. University of Birmingham, Apr. 2011. 60 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rosamund Marriott Watson | Andrew Lang
assumed the role of literary adviser during the volume's preparation. The book had mediocre sales, selling about 250 copies to British and American readers. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 Hughes, Linda K. “A Woman Poet Angling for Notice: Rosamund Marriott Watson”. Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930, edited by Marysa Demoor and Marysa Demoor, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 134-55. 140 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Bowen | The story Mysterious Kor, with its fine pen-picture of the Regent's Park area of London, with its tall eighteenth-century houses blacked out as a precaution against bombers but brilliantly lit by moonlight, is... |