During this visit, Gaskell conducted a mild flirtation with American man of letters Charles Norton
.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
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Friends, Associates
Flora Shaw
Here she became a friend of novelist and neighbour George Meredith
, who introduced her to a wider social circle, including W.T. Stead
, the scandalous journalist and editor of the Pall Mall Gazette...
Friends, Associates
Rudyard Kipling
RK
liked to build friendships with men of action as well as intellectuals. During his years in Vermont he became a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt
(then the Under Secretary of the US Navy) and...
Occupation
T. S. Eliot
TSE
took leave of absence from his job with Faber and Faber
to accept an invitation from Harvard University
to hold the Charles Eliot Norton
professorship at Harvard for the academic year 1932-33.
Ackroyd, Peter. T.S. Eliot. Hamish Hamilton, 1984.
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Occupation
Elizabeth Siddal
After this show, Siddal's illustration of Scott
's Clerk Saunders was part of an exhibition that toured the United States; beyond these two instances, her work was never exhibited in her lifetime. Charles Eliot Norton
Reception
Elizabeth Gaskell
Gaskell wrote to her friend Charles Eliot Norton
that this story was an old rubbishy one . . . founded on fact.
qtd. in
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.