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Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | The novel was a massive success, in the words of Henry Jamesa momentous public event. Ward, Mary Augusta. “Introduction”. Robert Elsmere, edited by Rosemary Ashton, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xviii. vii |
Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
's friend Benjamin Jowett
praised David Grieve as the best novel since George Eliot
.Walter Pater
also approved, but critics were not enthusiastic. Colby, Vineta. The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. New York University Press. 150 |
Literary responses | Alice Meynell | The reviewer for the Morning Post praised AM
(perhaps remembering the earlier controversy over prose stylists) as a delicate thinker and delicate writer and perhaps the most sincere and uncompromising of those authors who appear... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vernon Lee | This collection of essays marks her turn from the search for pure aesthetic perception and expression towards the growth of social conscience. She frames this change by her reading of Pater
's Marius the Epicurean... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vernon Lee | VL
acknowledges several influences in her preface, including archaeologist Eugénie Sellers
, Bernard Berenson
, and Mary Logan
(the pseudonym of Mary Smith Costelloe, future wife of Berenson
). She closes with a Valedictory for... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Legge | When her mother dies leaving her some money, Janet writes to her husband (who still idolises her, but looks down upon her from a mental height and explains things in the simplest possible way, with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michael Field | From 1890 (when they were introduced to Walter Pater
and attended, along with Oscar Wilde
and Arthur Symons
, a lecture he gave) Katharine and Edith were deeply influenced in their writing by Pater. Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray. 119-20 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michael Field | Since 1890 Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper had been preparing to write a collection of poems responding to European art by touring several important galleries (including, besides the National Gallery
in London, the Louvre |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vernon Lee | Dedicated to the author's companion and fellow writer Mary Robinson
, this volume is another collection of essays, some previously published. Here Lee begins to dismiss the moral implications and social conditions within and around... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Flora Annie Steel | Through a brother-in-law of her husband's, Henry Nettleship
, she had access to advice in her historical work from leading scholars: Pater
, Ruskin
, Benjamin Jowett
, Mark Pattison
, and Goldwin Smith
. Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann. 66 |
Instructor | John Buchan | After going to school in several different towns as his father was allotted to various parishes, JB
went on a scholarship to Glasgow University
, where he specialised in classics and was taught by Gilbert Murray |
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 | 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. |
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... |
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