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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Vernon Lee | In her biography of Lee, Vineta Colby
repeats longstanding judgments about the author's sexuality by emphasizing that she made no effort to conceal her attachments to women, Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press, 2003. 335 |
Cultural formation | Una Troubridge | From 29 November 1915, the day UT
and Hall consummated their love, Troubridge began to define herself as an invert, though at this point she was still married. The term invert became widely used... |
Education | Muriel Box | MB
early learned to read for herself (with some help from Reading Without Tears, a mid-Victorian textbook by Favell Lee Bevan, later Mrs Mortimer
) because her parents were often too busy to satisfy... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Olive Schreiner | OS
met Havelock Ellis
when she agreed to attend a meeting of the Progressive Association
with him; they became lifelong friends. First, Ruth, and Ann Scott. Olive Schreiner. André Deutsch, 1980. 130 |
Friends, Associates | H. D. | In the 1920s, while HD and Bryher
were living rootlessly, sometimes in London, sometimes in Europe, HD's list of acquaintances grew to include Gertrude Stein
, Alice B. Toklas
, Ernest Hemingway
, James Joyce |
Friends, Associates | George Egerton | After the success of her Keynotes, GE
became acquainted with the literary and intellectual world. Among her new acquaintances she expressed admiration for Havelock Ellis
but called W. B. Yeats
a poseur. Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press, 1958. 34 |
Friends, Associates | Michael Field | They made a friend of George Meredith
some time before 1890 and visited him often. Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray, 1933. 66 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
's correspondents included Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
, Alice Paul
, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
, Elizabeth Robins
, Helena Swanwick
, Henry Nevinson
, Havelock Ellis
, John Galsworthy
, Victor Gollancz
, A. R. Orage |
Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | At the Working Girls' Club in the summer of 1892, EPL
met the essayist and novelist Edith Ellis
(wife of sexologist Havelock Ellis
). She admired Edith Ellis's unconventionality and freedom, and the two women... |
Friends, Associates | Bryher | Bryher
and sexologist Havelock Ellis
began a twenty-year association. This was encouraged by H. D.
, who knew of their mutual interest in depictions of cross-dressing women in Elizabethan drama. Collecott, Diana. H.D. and Sapphic Modernism, 1910-1950. Cambridge University Press, 1999, http://Rutherford HSS. 67 and n68 Bryher,. The Heart to Artemis: A Writer’s Memoirs. Collins, 1963. 287 |
Health | H. D. | HD was referred to Freud by her previous therapist, Hanns Sachs
. Before agreeing to take her on as a patient and student, Freud read her writings, as well as those of D. H. Lawrence |
Intertextuality and Influence | Doris Lessing | The novel opens with Martha at fifteen, reading (or planning to read) Havelock Ellis
on sex, and despising the knitting and gossip of her mother and a neighbour. It ends with her marriage, which is... |
Leisure and Society | Bryher | Carrying a letter of introduction from Havelock Ellis
, Bryher
met Sigmund Freud
in Vienna. Bryher,. The Heart to Artemis: A Writer’s Memoirs. Collins, 1963. 244-5 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Olive Schreiner | She gave Havelock Ellis
a free hand to help her with the publishing arrangements. Her dedication, the only part of the publication about which she was adamant, is to A small girl-child. qtd. in First, Ruth, and Ann Scott. Olive Schreiner. André Deutsch, 1980. 191 |
Occupation | Nancy Cunard | Her purpose in founding the press was to publish mainly contemporary poetry of an experimental kind. Virginia Woolf
warned her that Your hands will always be covered with ink, Ford, Hugh, editor. Nancy Cunard: Brave Poet, Indomitable Rebel 1896-1965. Chilton Book Company, 1968. 69 |