Andrew Lang

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

The mixed reviews that greeted Songs can be attributed to a lack of backing from Lang in advertising the book.Percy Addleshaw in The Academy found it in some measure a disappointment. Her...

This book, immensely popular with Anglo-Indians, was welcomed in London in a short review from Andrew Lang .

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

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...

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...

EN 's Lays and Legends appeared from Longman , having been favourably reported on by their reader, Andrew Lang .

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...

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...

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.

Readers from Somerville and Ross's own time until today have had difficulty believing that their books were not essentially written by one of them and only revised by the other: in other words, that their...

From a different angle (the needs of children rather than the origins of a genre) ES here supported an idea whose time had come. Andrew Lang (with his wife, Leonora ) published The Blue Fairy...

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...

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...

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...