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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Annie Besant | AB
's interest in socialism led her to friendship with William Morris
, and she became a vistor at Kelmscott House, where she often stayed to dinner. Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992. 184 |
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. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Gray, Anne, and Pam Blevins. The World of Women in Classical Music. WordWorld Publications, 2007, pp. 876-7. 876 |
Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pankhurst | Among those gathering at the Pankhursts' Russell Square salon were William Morris
, Annie Besant
, Keir Hardie
, Tom Mann
, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
. Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967. 24 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Ellen Harrison | Distinguished guests at Newnham
at this time included Ruskin
and Turgenev
; JEH
recalls giving them tours of the college in her Reminiscences of a Student's Life. Harrison, Jane Ellen. Reminiscences of a Student’s Life. Hogarth Press, 1925. 44 |
Friends, Associates | Isabella Neil Harwood | The position of her father
as a journal editor put INH
in contact with several well-known authors of the time. She attended a party with her parents at the house of Dr Westland Marston
... |
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