Taylor, Anne, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992.
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Anthologization | Mary Frere | MF
calls herself the collector, not the author. She first persuaded Anna Liberata to begin telling stories one day when, as the only woman in the elaborate camp attending her father, she was at a... |
Cultural formation | Annie S. Swan | After her son's death ASS
, like so many others, made some approaches towards spiritualism. Her first experience, with a medium named Husk, repelled her by its crassness and triviality. A second experience, during the... |
Education | Christina Stead | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Annie Besant | William Stead
, a political ally of AB
, arranged for her to meet Madame Blavatsky
. Taylor, Anne, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992. 240 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Annie Besant | She later declared her love for William Stead
, which he did not return. Taylor, Anne, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992. 200-1 |
Friends, Associates | Marie Belloc Lowndes | As a child she had already met several distinguished writers in England, and Mary Clarke Mohl
and Turgenev
in France. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941. 369-70 |
Friends, Associates | Annie Besant | AM continued participation in the Law and Liberty League
, which she had helped William Stead
(for whom she entertained an unreciprocated love) to found the previous autumn. Taylor, Anne, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992. 200-1 |
Friends, Associates | Flora Shaw | Here she became a friend of novelist and neighbour George Meredith
, who introduced her to a wider social circle, including W.T. Stead
, the scandalous journalist and editor of the Pall Mall Gazette... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Marie Belloc Lowndes | |
Literary responses | Anna Kingsford | The Perfect Way was virtually ignored by the mainstream press, though it received a one-line notice in W. T. Stead
's Review of Reviews: Mystical, and very suggestive from the standpoint of the Christian... |
Literary responses | Josephine Butler | Initial sales of the work were not strong. W. T. Stead
endeavoured to help by promoting the work as the Book of the Month in his Review of Reviews for October 1896. Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray, 2001. 276 |
Literary responses | Victoria Cross | The Athenæum argued that Anna Lombard was an inartistic book, weakened by VC
's choice of a male narrator: however much or little she may understand women, [Cross] has very little conception of a good... |
Literary responses | Victoria Cross | Reviewers were more approving of Six Chapters of a Man's Life than of many previous Cross novels. The Aberdeen Free Press, for instance, praised her uncommon literary ability, and in the Review of Reviews... |
Literary responses | Victoria Cross | Reviews continued to attack Cross's supposed immorality, even as some acknowledged the force of her writing. The New York Times postulated from Life's Shop Window that Victoria Cross, presumably, is a woman, and perhaps... |
Literary responses | Ella Hepworth Dixon | Once published, the novel was an astounding success. Fehlbaum, Valerie. Ella Hepworth Dixon: the Story of a Modern Woman. Ashgate, 2005. 127 Dixon, Ella Hepworth. The Story of a Modern Woman. Editor Farmer, Steve, Broadview, 2004. 196-7, 196n1 |