qtd. in
Beerbohm, Max, editor. Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art. Hutchinson, 1920.
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Characters | Cicely Hamilton | Set in the near future, the play builds on the premise that the world has found a way to end technological warfare. It concludes that war is an abhorrent but inevitable part of the human... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | VT
and Prime Minister Asquith
, who was nearly ten years her senior, shared a particularly close and long-lasting friendship, and he corresponded with her during her time in Italy. She had known him... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | The wedding attracted so many people that traffic round about St. Martin's Church had for some hours to be diverted. qtd. in Beerbohm, Max, editor. Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art. Hutchinson, 1920. 143 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | IT
's mother, Maud (Holt) Tree
, taught classics at Queen's College
, Harley Street and harboured the ambition of becoming an academic at Girton College
. Queen's College was founded for the training of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Lytton | The elder of Constance's surviving brothers, Victor Bulwer-Lytton, second Earl of Lytton
, a colonial civil servant and diplomat, was also a supporter of the suffrage campaign. He visited Constance in Holloway Prison
, Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914. 152-3 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Ottoline Morrell | Lady Ottoline Bentinck (later LOM
) met Herbert Henry Asquith
. He was married, but she became, according to her own account, really intimate qtd. in Darroch, Sandra Jobson. Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1975. 36 Darroch, Sandra Jobson. Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1975. 31, 35-9, 172-3 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Lady Cynthia Charteris
married Herbert Asquith
, Beb, the second son of Herbert Henry Asquith
and Helen Asquith
. Herbert Henry Asquith (later first Earl of Oxford and Asquith), 1852-1928, was at this time... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Kennedy | Margaret Kennedy
married David Davies
, a successful barrister who had been a secretary to the former Prime Minister Asquith
. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983. 74-5 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 36 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Kennedy | Through her marriage to Davies, Kennedy came into contact with the former Prime Minister Asquith
and his family. Her acquaintance with members of high society gave her considerable material for later fiction. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983. 77, 90 |
Friends, Associates | Marie Belloc Lowndes | Her literary friends of a generation before her own included George Meredith
, Rhoda Broughton
, and Henry James
. She participated in the friendship of the two last-named by being regularly at Broughton's house... |
Friends, Associates | Edith Lyttelton | EL
and her husband were friendly with several prominent politicians, including Herbert Asquith
and Arthur Balfour
. Lyttelton, Edith. Alfred Lyttelton: An Account of His Life. Longmans, Green, 1917. 220 |
Friends, Associates | Ethel M. Arnold | EA’s other acquaintances from her early life in Oxford included Walter Pater
, Max Müller
(whose daughter attended Oxford High School with her), and Benjamin Jowett
, Master of Balliol. Later in life, friends and... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Bloomsbury came to designate a new sensibility in philosophy, literature, art, and politics, and its growth has been linked with the crucial break between the Edwardians and the Georgians, the point when human character... |
Instructor | Lady Ottoline Morrell | When she was in her early twenties, William Dalrymple Maclagan
, eighty-eighth Bishop of York, supervised her continuing education and prepared regular reading lists for her. And even after this, intellectual men of her acquaintance... |
politics | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
persuaded Prime Minister Asquith
to reverse his support of women's suffrage; the militant suffrage campaign followed on the realisation of political stalemate that followed. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 416-17 |
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