Coventry Patmore

AM suspended her close friendship with poet Coventry Patmore because of his increasing jealousy of her friendships with other men.

To many of her contemporaries (especially male contemporaries), AM symbolised the perfection of Woman and Mother. Many descriptions of her suggest Woolf 's Mrs Ramsay in To the Lighthouse. Coventry Patmore and Francis Thompson

Several members of CS 's extended family were published authors. Her elder half-sister Janet published religious works. The best-known in her own day was her great-niece Lucy Walford , romantic novelist (whom Coventry Patmore ...

She dedicated the volume to Coventry Patmore , though their friendship had largely waned.

VM 's childhood home was a cultural centre for Roman Catholics such as the poets Francis Thompson and Coventry Patmore . She was influenced by her parents' literary activities, as well as by her mother's...