Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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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. 184 |
politics | Annie Besant | She was one of the key figures urging the protest to go ahead despite the order against public processions. It took place on 13 November. When the protesters arrived at Trafalgar Square, they faced... |
Textual Production | Annie Besant | AB
left a legacy of lectures to complement her political pamphlets. Responding to William Morris
, who enquired about her lectures, she sent a list of titles such as The Unemployed, Why I am... |
Textual Production | L. S. Bevington | Another essay, Why I am an Expropriationist (Liberty, May 1894), was reprinted the same year, together with an essay by William Morris
, in a Liberty Press
pamphlet called The Why I Ams... |
Textual Production | Mathilde Blind | MB
delivered a public address to an audience at St John's Wood in London on William Morris
's translation of the Volsunga Saga (which had been published earlier that year). Garnett, Richard, and Mathilde Blind. “Memoir”. The Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind, edited by Arthur Symons and Arthur Symons, T. Fisher Unwin, pp. 1-43. 24 |
Textual Production | A. S. Byatt | |
Textual Features | A. S. Byatt | The author at the heart of this story is a children's writer, Olive Wellwood, who is married to a wealthy banker and lives in a Kentish farmhouse strangely called Todefright. The actual Edith Nesbit
,... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | A. S. Byatt | She used this work to reinforce her sense that the material and the visual are indispensable, and her interest in artists who use their hands. She revels in the obvious contrasts between her two subjects... |
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... |
Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Elliot | In 1880 Theodore Watts
described this volume as unequal, and noted that the poet was later inclined to disparage her initial publication. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2726 (1880): 124 |
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... |
Textual Production | Penelope Fitzgerald | PF
's publications in the scholarly field include an edition of The Novel on Blue Paper, an unfinished, unpublished work by William Morris
, 1982, and the introduction to a new issue of Oxford University Press |
Textual Production | Penelope Fitzgerald | She brought to this work her own experience as an amateur artist, and shows great skill in the delineation of character: of William Morris
as well as of Burne-Jones and his wife Georgiana
(who were... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Gardam | Gardam's The Hollow Land (addressed to an older age-group) has an epigraph from the prose romance by William Morris
which bears the same title. The land in her book is the Cumbrian fells, full... |
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. 190:125 Glasier, Katharine Bruce. The Glen Book. London. 79 |
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