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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | A. Mary F. Robinson | Her parents, who were the friends of many literary and artistic people, introduced her to an impressive social circle. Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, William Michael Rossetti
, Thomas Hardy
, Walter Pater
,... |
Textual Production | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | She wrote the piece because she was incensed by Oxford professor John Campbell Shairp
's attack on Rossetti (which built on criticism begun by Robert Buchanan
a decade and a half earlier). The entry in... |
Travel | Vernon Lee | VL
was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson
and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen
, Robert Browning |
Reception | Vernon Lee | One of the first and most appreciative readers of VL
's work was John Addington Symonds
, a leading cultural historian of the time. Her book also brought her the notice and friendship of other... |
Reception | Vernon Lee | This book lost Lee the friendship of others who had admired her Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy. Broken friendships included those with Oscar Wilde
(refigured as the character Posthlethwaite), Jane
and William Morris |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | As the Victorian period advanced, FH
's popularity with readers held firm, but critics became less enthusiastic. George Gilfillan
published a substantial article on her in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1847, placing her first in... |
Reception | Dora Greenwell | During her lifetime, DG
maintained a loyal and consistent following. William Michael Rossetti
said of her that she produced some work both refined and of genuine feeling to which her appearance and manner corresponded. Battiscombe, Georgina. Christina Rossetti: A Divided Life. Constable. 89 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ford Madox Ford | Christina Rossetti
was his aunt, and her brothers his uncles, through the marriage of William Michael Rossetti
. |
Friends, Associates | Michael Field | 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
. Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray. 114-15, 116 |
Leisure and Society | May Crommelin | MC
was a member of the Albemarle Club
. Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934. Gale Research. vol. 1 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | During their visits to London, the Brownings socialised with such prominent figures as John Ruskin
, Jane
and Thomas Carlyle
, Alfred Tennyson
, Dante Gabriel
and William Michael Rossetti
, and Charles Kingsley
.... |
Friends, Associates | Mathilde Blind | Other important friends include Dr Louis Mond
, the American Moncure Conway
(who had lost a position at Harvard
for preaching against slavery), Richard Garnett
(who began calling her by her first name in 1870)... |
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