William Holman Hunt

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...

GC published her translated Selections from the Works of Plato; on this day William Holman Hunt thanked her for his complimentary copy.

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...

William Holman Hunt wrote that her prose was so clear that it seemed more like an original text than a translation. The Athenæum reviewer praised this version as being the only selection suitable for a...

She sent out copies to Cardinal Wiseman , William Holman Hunt (who expressed his delight), Thomas Carlyle , Alfred Lord Tennyson (who called it picturesque), Edward Bulwer-Lytton , and German historian Leopold Ranke .

Shortly before her death, MEC finished her work on an illustrated life of the still-living Pre-Raphaelite artist Holman Hunt.

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 ...

DMC chaperoned Edith Waugh to Switzerland to marry painter William Holman Hunt , who was the widower of Waugh's deceased sister.

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 . The marriage apparently proved happy. The...

DMC had herself chaperoned Edith Waugh to Switzerland in 1875 to marry her brother-in-law William Holman Hunt .

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

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 .

The artistic pursuits of EG 's daughter Meta produced friendships with John Ruskin and with Pre-RaphaelitesWilliam Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti .

During her time in Munich and her briefer time in Oberammergau, AMH wrote articles which were published in the Ladies' Companion, the Athenæum, and Household Words. Her description of the Oberammergau passion...

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...