Meisel, Perry. The Absent Father: Virginia Woolf and Walter Pater. Yale University Press.
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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. 17 andn25 |
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 | 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... |
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... |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
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 |
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... |
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