Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers, 1918.
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Friends, Associates | Mary Augusta Ward | Mary Augusta Arnold (later MAW
) met George Eliot
at a Sunday supper given by Mark
and Emily Francis Pattison
. Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers, 1918. 107 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Augusta Ward | In 1868 Mary Augusta Arnold met Mark Pattison
, Rector of Lincoln College and a prominent Oxford scholar, and his wife, Emily Francis Pattison
, a former art student and connoisseur. Unconventional and bohemian, the... |
Friends, Associates | May Laffan | She exchanged letters with both George Augustin Macmillan
and Sir George Grove
. Her social circle while she was visiting London included a surprisingly large number of literary names. Rhoda Broughton
was a friend of... |
Friends, Associates | Rhoda Broughton | RB
's vitality, sincerity, and pungent wit gained her the friendship of some of the most notable people of her day. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
Friends, Associates | George Eliot | By 1870 it was at last becoming common for married couples (like the scholar Mark Pattison
and his wife Emelia, or Emily Francis
) to visit GE
and her partner. Publisher Charles Kegan Paul
and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Flora Annie Steel | Through a brother-in-law of her husband's, Henry Nettleship
, she had access to advice in her historical work from leading scholars: Pater
, Ruskin
, Benjamin Jowett
, Mark Pattison
, and Goldwin Smith
. Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann, 1981. 66 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Rhoda Broughton | |
Textual Features | Mary Augusta Ward | The novel features Robert Elsmere's gradual loss of his orthodox Christian faith, and the tension which this causes between the emerging sceptic and his wife, Catherine Leyburn (based on MAW
's friend Laura Lyttleton
)... |
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