Walter Pater

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...

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 .

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

The novel was a massive success, in the words of Henry Jamesa momentous public event. Critic John Sutherland deems it the best-selling work of quality fiction in the nineteenth century. By the summer...

MAW 's friend Benjamin Jowett praised David Grieve as the best novel since George Eliot .Walter Pater also approved, but critics were not enthusiastic. Sales were good, but there were some hostile reviews...

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...

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...

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.