Walter Pater

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

Both Edith and Katharine contributed to this extraordinary journal, giving their impressions of travel, art, religion, death, and love. They also record encounters with their literary contemporaries, including Robert Browning , George Meredith , John Ruskin

The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius , John Wesley , and Tolstoy . In Dante and Botticelli she argues from her two Italian examples that the best possible training for...

It was her first of several writings on literary subjects for this periodical, most of them published in the early twentieth century. Her other contributions were French translations of earlier works, including a three-part discussion...

Vineta Colby suggests that Lee's novel is not a specific attack on either Pre-Raphaelitism or Ruskin 's Christian aestheticism, but on the more general high art groups, which read hedonism into Pater and vaunted the...

In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot

Of these Be It Cosiness, in verse, claimed that Beerbohm lacked consistency as an aesthete: he In language quaint defended paint (i.e. cosmetics), and now proceeds to disparage Pater.

Here she forgoes a chronological structure in favour of ordering her eclectic subjects (such as ancient sculpture, medieval love poems, Elizabethan plays set during the Renaissance) in an eclectic manner. In this way she imitates...

Betty Barnes, The Book Burner was probably inspired by Walter Scott 's account of a cook who used her employer's manuscript collection to fuel a fire and line pie-tins. Other titles in this volume...

This was one of EM 's favourites among her later works. Walter Pater , to whom she had sent a copy, wrote to express the opinion that she had succeeded in a remarkable way in...

LH 's life and work have produced an increasing body of recent criticism, much of it from Edward Marx , who maintains the Laurence Hope website. An early article by Marx critically surveys contemporary reviews...

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...

The Academy published MF 's sonnet written in tribute to Walter Pater , who had died at the end of July.

OW 's significance as poet, playwright, and writer of prose fiction, remained in eclipse for many years after his notorious trial and imprisonment in Reading Gaol , events whose chilling impact on poetry and prose...

The preface addresses the problems of writing historical fiction: A few hard facts are before us, a murder, an abduction, a marriage; with regard to none of these events can Mary Stuart's will be known...