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Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Julia Constance Fletcher | 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
. Fitzsimons, Eleanor. Wilde’s Women: How Oscar Wilde Was Shaped by the Women He Knew. Abrams Press, 2016. 76 |
Education | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | 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... |
Education | Adrienne Rich | 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... |
Education | Virginia Woolf | 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. Meisel, Perry. The Absent Father: Virginia Woolf and Walter Pater. Yale University Press, 1980. 17 andn25 |
Friends, Associates | Ethel M. Arnold | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Emilie Barrington | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Rhoda Broughton | RB
's vitality, sincerity, and pungent wit gained her the friendship of some of the most notable people of her day. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
Friends, Associates | Algernon Charles Swinburne | 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 |
Friends, Associates | Mona Caird | 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... |
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
,... |
Friends, Associates | Michael Field | 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 |
Friends, Associates | A. Mary F. Robinson | 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... |
Friends, Associates | A. Mary F. Robinson | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Ellen Harrison | 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)... |
Friends, Associates | Julia Constance Fletcher | She knew many other prominent members of the English literary world, like Rudyard Kipling
, Robert Browning
, Walter Pater
, and Henry James
. |
Timeline
1 March 1873: Walter Pater published his influential study...
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1 March 1873
Walter Pater
published his influential study of writers, sculptors, and painters from the thirteenth through the eighteenth century: Studies in the History of the Renaissance.
Monsman, Gerald Cornelius. Walter Pater. Twayne, 1977.
16, 49
4 March 1885: In Marius the Epicurean, Walter Pater established...
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4 March 1885
In Marius the Epicurean, Walter Pater
established his view that the city was the modern topic for writers. The novel is set in Marcus Aurelius
's Rome.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Clements, Patricia. Baudelaire and the English Tradition. Princeton University Press, 1985.
191
24 May 1887: Walter Pater published Imaginary Portraits,...
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24 May 1887
Walter Pater
published Imaginary Portraits, a collection of four short stories.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
57
Donoghue, Denis. Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls. Knopf, 1995.
196
15 November 1889: Walter Pater published Appreciations, with...
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15 November 1889
Walter Pater
published Appreciations, with an Essay on Style.
Clements, Patricia. Baudelaire and the English Tradition. Princeton University Press, 1985.
102
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
57
February 1893: Walter Pater published a selection of lectures...
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February 1893
Walter Pater
published a selection of lectures and essays, Plato
and Platonism.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
57
21 August 1911: Leonardo da Vinci's painting La Gioconda...
Building item
21 August 1911
Leonardo da Vinci
's painting La Gioconda or the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in Paris; it was recovered two years later when the Italian thief tried to return it to the...
Texts
Pater, Walter. Appreciations. Macmillan, 1889.
Pater, Walter. Imaginary Portraits. Macmillan, 1887.
Pater, Walter. Marius the Epicurean. Macmillan, 1885.
Pater, Walter. Plato and Platonism. Macmillan, 1893.
Pater, Walter. Studies in the History of the Renaissance. Macmillan.