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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | VW
's mother, née Julia Prinsep Jackson
(1846-95), was born in India and brought to England as a toddler. Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File, 1995. 267 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fay Weldon | Fay's maternal grandmother, whom she calls Frieda early in her autobiography but Nona from the time they became close, and who was called Susan by her husband, had modelled for Holman Hunt
as a girl... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Chatterton | Rebecca's mother was born Martha Chatterton. Rebecca (also known as Pysie) had maintained a close relationship with GC
since she was young, visiting or staying with her mother at the Chattertons', and later doing... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Hunt | The youngest of the three girls was christened Sylvia Kingsley after Holman Hunt
's painting Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus (an illustration to Shakespeare
's Two Gentlemen of Verona), but the spelling was changed... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dinah Mulock Craik | George Lillie Craik became (following his marriage to Dinah Mulock and possibly as a result of his connection with her) a partner in the Macmillan publishing firm
. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983. 15 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | The artistic pursuits of EG
's daughter Meta produced friendships with John Ruskin
and with Pre-RaphaelitesWilliam Holman Hunt
and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993. 455 |
Friends, Associates | Emilie Barrington | She met him again through their mutual friend Mrs Nassau Senior
. Watts's biographer Ronald Chapman
suggests that Watts needed Barrington as a mirror to show him his reflection, to present to him an encouraging... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | Her parents often hosted musical and cultural events that drew visitors from London's artistic circles. As a girl, MEC
would have seen Alfred Tennyson
, John Ruskin
, William Holman Hunt
, Fanny Kemble
... |
Friends, Associates | Dinah Mulock Craik | DMC
chaperoned Edith Waugh
to Switzerland to marry painter William Holman Hunt
, who was the widower of Waugh's deceased sister. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983. 17-18 |
Friends, Associates | Emily Davies | In London, ED
met John Stuart Mill
and Harriet Taylor
. At Emily Faithfull
's parties, frequented by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Isa Craig
, and Bessie Rayner Parkes, she met Anthony Trollope
, Louis Blanc |
Friends, Associates | Michael Field | While in Paris, they lunched with Anna Swanwick
, who introduced them to Holman Hunt
and his wife
. On the same trip they met William Michael Rossetti
. Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray, 1933. 114-15, 116 |
Leisure and Society | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
began her married life with a daily servant (who came at 8 a.m. and stayed till 9 p.m.) instead of the live-in one her mother had employed. Though she was a great attender at... |
Literary responses | Georgiana Chatterton | William Holman Hunt
wrote that her prose was so clear that it seemed more like an original text than a translation. “The Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton”. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | Shortly before her death, MEC
finished her work on an illustrated life of the still-living Pre-Raphaelite
artist Holman Hunt. Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983. 77 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Siddal | While ES
was working as a dressmaker in a milliner's shop, she came into contact with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
through a connection with the family of the principal of the London School of Design
... |
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