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Gifford Lewis
Standard Name: Lewis, Gifford
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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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eva Gore-Booth | In her dual biography of Gore-Booth and Roper, published in 1988, Gifford Lewis
situates the women in the romantic friendship tradition, arguing that their relationship was not sexual but based rather on personal affinities and... |
politics | Eva Gore-Booth | Among other responsibilities here, Gore-Booth ensured the eligibility of female students for scholarships awarded by the Municipal School of Technology
(a campaign directed against a double standard for men and women). Gifford Lewis
observes that... |
Textual Features | Eva Gore-Booth | Several of these poems concern people and places that figured significantly in her recent experiences. EGB
dedicated The Travellers to E.G.R.; it recalls her first meeting with Esther Roper
, who was to be... |
Textual Production | Molly Keane | MK
wrote a foreword for Gifford Lewis
's selection from the letters of Somerville
and Ross
, published in 1989. |
Textual Production | Martin Ross | Wilde, however, refused other work from them. As the years of their collaboration went on, they produced, says their biographer Maurice Collis
, an absorption: not by one writer of the other, but of the... |
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