Walter Pater

JCF titled her second novel (this time published as G. F., in three volumes) Mirage, dedicated to Walter Pater : it is known chiefly for its portrait of the young Oscar Wilde .

The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family...

Virginia Stephen (later VW ) began attending Latin classes taught by Clara Pater (sister of Walter ). They began on Greek in 1899, and it seems that the following year Virginia switched to private lessons.

GHS was educated at home by governesses of several nationalities: Mademoiselle Titsie , Marie Girard , Rose Frohnstein , and the English M. L. J., on several of whom she lavished that warmth of temperament...

In addition to Henry James and Walter Pater , whom by now they regarded as old friends, they met there Marc André Raffalovich , poet and pioneer writer on homosexuality, who was born in Paris...

Moving in London's social and creative circles, JEH also met Robert Browning , Walter Pater , Henry James , and Alfred Tennyson (whom she called the most openly vain man I ever met)...

She knew many other prominent members of the English literary world, like Rudyard Kipling , Robert Browning , Walter Pater , and Henry James .

EA’s other acquaintances from her early life in Oxford included Walter Pater , Max Müller (whose daughter attended Oxford High School with her), and Benjamin Jowett , Master of Balliol. Later in life, friends and...

EB 's other literary, cultural, and civic-minded friends included writers Henry James , Walter Pater , Walter Crane (a moving spirit in the Arts and Crafts movement), and the philathropist and reformer Octavia Hill (whose...

RB 's vitality, sincerity, and pungent wit gained her the friendship of some of the most notable people of her day. Her wide circle of friends and acquaintances included Henry James (the two became extremely...

He had ties to writers Anne Ogle , Mary Louisa Molesworth , Ouida , and Mathilde Blind . His movement through England's literary circles also brought him into the company of Thomas Carlyle , James Anthony Froude

MC shared a particularly close friendship with William Sharp (who wrote as Fiona MacLeod ) and his wife Elizabeth (who wrote his biography). The Sharps, who lived a two minutes' walk away from MC in...

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 ,...

Katharine and Edith Cooper shared a great many distinguished friends in the worlds of literature and aesthetics: Walter Pater , Oscar Wilde , Arthur Symons , Charles Shannon , Sarianna Browning , Thomas Sturge Moore

In June 1881 Vernon Lee stayed with AMFR 's family in London. The next month the friends visited Oxford with Mary's sister Mabel . Their Oxford social life included attending a dinner party hosted by...