Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973.
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death | John Oliver Hobbes | She had left her parents' home on the Isle of Wight the day before, having spent three energetic days there, and her father later wrote that on leaving she gave no indication of illness or... |
Family and Intimate relationships | John Oliver Hobbes | One of her most notable personal and professional relationships was with the novelist George Moore
. The pair met in 1893, and Moore appears to have fallen in love with the then-still-married Hobbes. A break... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Nancy Cunard | NC
's mother, Maud Alice (Burke) Cunard
(Emerald), was born in San Francisco in 1872, to a wealthy father of Irish descent and a half-French mother. She was largely self-taught, and had a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was IT
's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ada Leverson | This was an act of self-assertion. AL
was probably impressed by the sophistication of Ernest, whose father was a wealthy diamond merchant. On marrying him, however, she discovered first that he had an illegitimate daughter... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ada Leverson | Unhappy in her marriage, though putting a good face on it, AL
sought solace in romantic attachments. Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973. 20 |
Fictionalization | Héloïse | |
Fictionalization | John Oliver Hobbes | JOH
found herself the subject of a more personal response in works by George Moore
. Mildred Lawson in Celibates (1895), whose obnoxious heroine was modelled on Moore's reading of his relationship with Hobbes, was... |
Friends, Associates | Julia Frankau | Literary figures regularly seen at JF
's afternoon salons included George Moore
, Max Beerbohm
, Arnold Bennett
, Somerset Maugham
, Sir William Nicholson
, and Sir Henry Irving
. It was at one... |
Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | Violet Keppel (later VT
) became acquainted, initially through her mother
's connections, with Diaghilev
, Nijinsky
, and Russian prima ballerina Tamara Karsavina
, as well as authors George Moore
and Hugh Walpole
. Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976. 32-3 |
Friends, Associates | Olive Schreiner | In England she also formed close friendships and intellectual bonds with feminist and socialist intellectual Eleanor Marx
, barrister and mathematics professor Karl Pearson
, and socialist pioneer Edward Carpenter
. Others she met in... |
Friends, Associates | A. Mary F. Robinson | Her parents, who were the friends of many literary and artistic people, introduced her to an impressive social circle. Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, William Michael Rossetti
, Thomas Hardy
, Walter Pater
,... |
Friends, Associates | Sheila Kaye-Smith | SKS
made early friendships with the novelists G. B. Stern
and Walter Lionel George
. Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery, 1958. 79 Stern writes W. L. George. Kaye-Smith's biographer Dorothea Walker
observes that she used the nickname Willy George for... |
Friends, Associates | Sheila Kaye-Smith | SKS
was an intimate friend for some forty years of novelist Gladys Stern
(known as Peter), with whom she jointly authored several books. Stern said Kaye-Smith's close friends were those with tremendous vitality, capable... |
Friends, Associates | Michael Field | They made a friend of George Meredith
some time before 1890 and visited him often. Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray, 1933. 66 |