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Cultural formation | Eva Gore-Booth | EGB
came from a Protestant family but broke with that tradition in favour of many other spiritual pursuits. Biographer Gifford Lewis
writes: even before her teens she had become, in Christian terms, godless and her... |
Cultural formation | H. D. | HD's interest in spiritualism is perhaps traceable to her Moravian background as well as to the yogi books given to her by Ezra Pound
when she was a teenager. During the Second World War she... |
Cultural formation | Hannah Cullwick | To all eyes she lived as Munby's servant; she often still slept in the basement kitchen. In the evenings, however, she played the role of a lady wife, sitting with Munby in the parlour, conversing... |
Education | Sylvia Pankhurst | SP
grew up amidst the political discussions of her parents' home. An intimate friend, politician Keir Hardie
, later remarked of this informal education: So that is what is the matter with you! You heard... |
Education | Mary Agnes Hamilton | During her studies at Cambridge, MAH
met Lady Burne-Jones
, who read to her from the letters of her husband Edward Burne-Jones
and of William Morris
as well as the poetry of Morris
. She... |
Education | H. D. | Following her withdrawal from Bryn Mawr, HD (with Pound
's assistance) embarked on an intensive independent study programme that lasted for five years. During this period she read and studied writers such as William Morris |
Education | Constance Smedley | After this she became a star student Brockington, Grace. “&A World Fellowship&: The Founding of the International Lyceum Club for Women Artists and Writers”. Lyceum Club. 2 Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus, 1912. 15 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Bruce Glasier | KBG
was devastated by her husband's death, but later she began to experience visions of his continuing presence (as she did of her son's presence after he too died). Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998. 190:125 Glasier, Katharine Bruce. The Glen Book. London. 79 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | DGR
met the woman who became known professionally as Fanny Cornforth
in 1856, when she began to sit for him for paintings including an unfinished study of a fallen woman or prostitute entitled Found... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Farr | FF
is now probably best remembered for her personal and professional relationships with two literary men, Bernard Shaw
and W. B. Yeats
. It seems that she met Shaw at William Morris
's house in... |
Friends, Associates | Algernon Charles Swinburne | After leaving Eton
, he met Lady Pauline
and Walter Trevelyan
, who became longtime friends and supporters. At Oxford he was first introduced to the Pre-Raphaelites
, and he forged friendships with Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Friends, Associates | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
's parents made connections through friendship as remarkable as those made for them by family descent. Her mother was a friend of many writers and intellectuals of both sexes, including Marie Belloc Lowndes
,... |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Tynan | Among those who frequented KT
's salon were George Russell
(Æ), Irish Nationalist and Fenian leader John O'Leary
, Gaelic scholar and revivalist Douglas Hyde
(founder of the Gaelic League
, 1893), and George Sigerson |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Her involvement in socialist circles led her to acquaintance with Sidney
and Beatrice Webb
, Edward Hulton
(editor of the Sunday Chronicle), and Robert Blatchford
, for whom she wrote several articles. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited, 1971. 71 |
Friends, Associates | Ethel Lilian Voynich | Stepniak and his work, including Underground Russia, 1883, were influential in ELV
's personal life and career. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Gray, Anne, and Pam Blevins. The World of Women in Classical Music. WordWorld Publications, 2007, pp. 876 -77. 876 |