George Augustus Moore

This was the favourite novel of SKS herself, and of critics Margaret MacKenzie and George Moore . On 25 July 1928 Moore inscribed to Kaye-Smith a copy of his Memoirs of my Dead Life...

The novel's initial favourable reviews came from an earlier generation of authors, including George Moore , A. E. Housman , Thomas Hardy , Arnold Bennett , J. M. Barrie , and H. G. Wells ...

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...

Unhappy in her marriage, though putting a good face on it, AL sought solace in romantic attachments. She enjoyed flirting, and preferred the company of men to that of women. Her biographer Charles Burkhart

By now she had contributed parodies of Max Beerbohm , George Moore , and others.

VM published Lot Barrow, a naturalist novel in the tradition of George Moore and Émile Zola .

This is one of the several pieces in which Orwell champions the middlebrow or non-art writing. His supreme example of the kind of book that has no literary pretensions but which remains readable when...

From his time at BrasenoseWP knew Oscar Browning . In Oxford and London he socialized with Edmund Gosse , Algernon Charles Swinburne , Simeon Solomon , Oscar Wilde , Vernon Lee , A. Mary F. Robinson

In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot

ATR bridges the gap between the Victorians and the moderns. Leslie Stephen found her irritating, and harshly criticized her Dictionary of National Biography entry on Elizabeth Barrett Browning , but noted that everyone who could...

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 ,...

The formal dinner, with speeches, was attended by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the twelve Irish women writers, and two hundred guests. Next day Somerville and Ross saw their photographs in the Irish Times and...

She had been working on it, and reading it aloud to her husband, by the end of 1917. George Moore , too, read it before publication and suggested the incorporation of a real-life incident which...

George Moore and Hugh Walpole both praised Heritage before publication; Walpole discerned the influence of Joseph Conrad and Emily Brontë .Again VSW 's mother weighed in as self-appointed publicist, and her husband envisaged for her...

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...