John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press, 2009.
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Education | Rosemary Sutcliff | Rosemary's mother was probably her most important teacher. She told her stories which, no matter how outlandish and fantastic, the very young Rosemary accepted as literal truth; she later imparted all kinds of varied information... |
Education | J. K. Rowling | Formative early reading included Richard Scarry
and Kenneth Grahame
's The Wind in the Willows. Joanne Rowling did not care for Enid Blyton
as a young child but acquired a taste for her later... |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | ES
wrote later that at no time in her life did she make intimate friends easily. Most people she had to do with she liked up to a certain point only, but she could count... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Mew | In the mid-1890s, CM
attended literary gatherings at the home of Henry Harland
, editor of The Yellow Book. Other writers who attended included Evelyn Sharp
, Netta Syrett
, Max Beerbohm
, Kenneth Grahame |
Literary responses | Evelyn Sharp | This book was praised in The Academy by Kenneth Grahame
for humanity, wit, tenderness, and fancy. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press, 2009. 32 |
Occupation | Ethel M. Arnold | In addition to women's political progress, EA's second tour featured talks about a range of subjects: Lewis Carroll
, Kenneth Grahame
, and Edward Lear
; the historians J. R. Green
, Edward Augustus Freeman |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | In her capacity as European representative for the American Everybody's Magazine (edited by John O'Hara Cosgrave
), CS
set out to woo various authors including Kenneth Grahame
. She writes that she was successful in... |
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
,... |
Textual Features | Evelyn Sharp | The Wymps books are remarkable, as are ES
's other children's books, for the unpatronising respect she shows for children: their minds, their perceptions, their imagination. Like her friend Kenneth Grahame
, she aims to... |
Textual Features | E. Nesbit | At the opening of The Treasure Seekers the narrator, Oswald Bastable, says he will not reveal which child is telling the story; yet already he is dropping unmistakable hints that it is himself. Oswald wavers... |
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