Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland, 1988.
Violet Dickinson
Standard Name: Dickinson, Violet
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Eden | Violet Dickinson
, who became a close friend of the young Virginia Stephen (later Virginia Woolf), was EE
's great-niece. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Virginia did not break down over this bereavement, but became a source of strength to others. Because Violet Dickinson
was also ill with typhoid, it was thought necessary to conceal Thoby's death from her, and... |
Friends, Associates | Kate Greenaway | Soon KG
's illustrations started to attract the attention of established writers and critics, with some of whom she forged friendships. For example, the poet Frederick Locker-Lampson
admired the child-like sentiments expressed in her work... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Virginia's tutor Janet Case
became her lifelong friend. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 143-4 |
Health | Virginia Woolf | Shortly after the death of her father
in May 1904, Virginia Stephen experienced a second and more serious nervous breakdown. She was nursed for nearly three months at the home of her friend Violet Dickinson |
Occupation | Kate Greenaway | KG
was driven by a strong work ethic. Woman's Life reported her as devoting her life to her work. Miss Greenaway is an indefatigable worker, and has been ever since she first seriously handled a... |
Reception | Virginia Woolf | Quentin Bell reports that [a]s always, [Woolf] found publication an agitating business, and that when she received her own six copies, on 20 October, she immediately dispatched one to each of Vanessa
, Clive Bell |
Textual Features | Kate Greenaway | KG
discussed her creative frustrations in a letter to her friend Violet Dickinson
in 1896. She believed her writing had potential but required more development. I do mean to try and do a little more... |
Textual Production | Emily Eden | Violet Dickinson
edited a volume of Emily Eden
's familiar Letters. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | The date on which VW
began this work has been the subject of much scholarly discussion. Some critics believe she began it soon after the death of her father in 1904. In his autobiography Leonard Woolf |
Travel | Virginia Woolf | Virginia
and Vanessa Stephen
(later Woolf and Bell) and Violet Dickinson
left England for Greece, where at Olympia on 13 September they met up with Thoby
and Adrian Stephen
. Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan, 1989. 10 |
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Texts
Eden, Emily. “Introduction”. Miss Eden’s Letters, edited by Violet Dickinson, Macmillan, 1919, p. vii - xi.
Eden, Emily. Miss Eden’s Letters. Editor Dickinson, Violet, Macmillan, 1919.