Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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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 | E. Nesbit | |
Textual Production | Violet Hunt | VH
and her sister Silvia Hunt (later Fogg-Elliot)
helped with the 's immensely popular versions of fairy tales from many lands and ages which Andrew Lang
published this year as The Blue Fairy Book. Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster. 34 |
Textual Production | E. Nesbit | Contributors included EN
herself, Gerald Gould
, G. K. Chesterton
, Andrew Lang
, and Oswald Barron
. Nesbit's idealistic promise that she would print the plain naked unashamed truth, in contrast to the lies... |
Textual Production | May Kendall | MK
's first full-length published work was a short novel, in part a fairy tale: That Very Mab, written in collaboration with Andrew Lang
, the classical scholar and folklore collector. Birch, Catherine Elizabeth. Evolutionary Feminism in Late-Victorian Women’s Poetry: Mathilde Blind, Constance Naden and May Kendall. University of Birmingham. 56 |
Textual Production | Rosamund Marriott Watson | Her earliest periodical publications garnered the attention of the influential writer and editor Andrew Lang
, who assumed from her pseudonym that she was a man. In November 1887, Lang included one of her ballads... |
Textual Production | May Kendall | |
Textual Production | Rosamund Marriott Watson | She provided the introduction but not the concluding notes for which the title page gives her credit. In actuality Andrew Lang
wrote the notes. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Textual Features | Evelyn Sharp | |
Textual Features | Rosamund Marriott Watson | Betty Barnes, The Book Burner was probably inspired by Walter Scott
's account of a cook who used her employer's manuscript collection to fuel a fire and line pie-tins. Blain, Virginia, editor. Victorian Women Poets: A New Annotated Anthology. Longman. 264 |
Publishing | May Kendall | White Poppies was serialized in Sylvia's Journal, thanks to its editor (apparently a friend of MK
), Rosamund Marriott Watson
(Graham R. Tomson). Kendall was most likely acquainted with Watson through Andrew Lang |
Publishing | Phyllis Bottome | |
Publishing | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | SACD
searched for a publisher for his novel, as he had for A Study in Scarlet, until it was taken by Longmans, Green and Co.
on the advice of Andrew Lang
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Author summary | May Kendall | May Kendall
is most notable for late-nineteenth-century poems characterized by sharp humour and sarcastic wit on topics related to evolutionary science and the new woman. Her novels employ sarcasm and irony to examine British... |
Literary responses | Eva Gore-Booth | The volume was well-received by EGB
's contemporaries. W. B. Yeats
wrote to her: I think it is full of poetic feeling and has great promise. . . . Weariness is really most imaginative and... |