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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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. 71 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Bruce Glasier | The title page of the pamphlet references works by both William Morris
and Walt Whitman
, while the text itself paraphrases Edward Carpenter
. Glasier, Katharine Bruce, and John Bruce Glasier. The Religion of Socialism: Two Aspects. Labour Press Society Limited;Labour Literature Society. title page, 1 |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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. 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
... |
Textual Features | Isabella Neil Harwood | The King and the Angel is INH
's attempt to dramatise a story told in Leigh Hunt
's Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla, 1848. The legend behind this story has given rise to... |
Textual Production | Henrik Ibsen | Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx
) played Nora and Aveling played Torvald. They were joined by May Morris
(daughter of William Morris
) as Mrs Linde and Bernard Shaw
as Krogstad. Durbach, Errol. “A century of Ibsen criticism”. The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen, edited by James McFarlane and James McFarlane, Cambridge University Press, pp. 233-51. 233-4 |
Textual Features | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's introduction says that the world of this novel is a Bellamy-Morris-Wells world. Stratton, Susan. “Muriel Jaeger’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Question Mark</span>, a Response to Bellamy and Wells”. Foundation, No. 80, pp. 62-9. 65 |
Publishing | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | JFLW
received £25 for the rights from William Morris
, and in December 1893 he signed one of three hundred copies from the new illustrated edition published by Kelmscott Press
. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 256 |
Friends, Associates | Rudyard Kipling | RK
and his sister Trix spent Decembers (the Christmas holidays) with their mother's sister Lady Burne-Jones
, and her husband, the painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones
, at their home, The Grange, in Fulham. Here... |
Reception | Vernon Lee | One of the first and most appreciative readers of VL
's work was John Addington Symonds
, a leading cultural historian of the time. Her book also brought her the notice and friendship of other... |
Reception | Vernon Lee | This book lost Lee the friendship of others who had admired her Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy. Broken friendships included those with Oscar Wilde
(refigured as the character Posthlethwaite), Jane
and William Morris |
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