Walter Pater

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...

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...

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

RB 's vitality, sincerity, and pungent wit gained her the friendship of some of the most notable people of her day. Her wide circle of friends and acquaintances included Henry James (the two became extremely...

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...

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.

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...

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...