William Morris

In 1858 AS became one of the first female members of the Royal Institution .

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

The Athenæum proclaimed, a more entertaining and salutary story for merry, scatter-brained, careless children has rarely been put on paper. The Dictionary of Literary Biography places this among CMT 's charming and...

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 ,...

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

Stepniak and his work, including Underground Russia, 1883, were influential in ELV 's personal life and career. He taught her Russian, pushed her to continue writing, and was the first to introduce her...

The Times Literary Supplement review by Thomas Sturge Moore , though prominent and lengthy, was more an essay on Rossetti than a review of the book in question, and was in any case not complimentary...

This novel's opening is a prime example of DW 's skill at hooking her readers. She opens with the ancient gateway of the house standing in darkness, illuminated every few minutes by the flash of...

This was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Two years after it appeared it was the favourite choice of young officers in hospital during the Crimean War. A guardsman confessed that...