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 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...

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...

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...

VW 's mother, née Julia Prinsep Jackson (1846-95), was born in India and brought to England as a toddler. She was a favourite niece (and subject) of photographer Julia Margaret Cameron , on whom...

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...