Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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Standard Name: Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
Used Form: W. S. Blunt
Used Form: Sir Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Viola Meynell | In December 1910, VM
and her siblings Francis
, Olivia
, and Monica
published a poetryanthology called Eyes of Youth (a phrase taken from Shakespeare
's The Merry Wives of Windsor), which included, along... |
Cultural formation | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Beauman, who uses the title Lovers for one of the chapters in her biography of LCA
, also believes that her subject's sexual development was shadowed by her mother's relationships with Arthur Balfour
(which puzzled... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Gregory | While she was in Egypt, AG
was thrown into close contact with Wilfrid Blunt
, an anti-imperialist whom she had already met in England. Although they did not consummate their relationship until they were back... |
Family and Intimate relationships | William Morris | Despite dealing with a debilitating illness, Jane took two lovers during her marriage: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
and (later) Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Her husband took great interest in other women and was frequently unfaithful. Having married him somewhat reluctantly, she, too, conducted an emotional life elsewhere: Beauman writes that she became pregnant by the writer Wilfrid Blunt |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Gregory | According to Wilfrid Blunt
's Secret Diaries, he and AG
consummated their relationship, which developed through their passionate support for Egyptian nationalist Arabi Bey
. Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum, 1985. 65 McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525. xiv Longford, Elizabeth. “Lady Gregory and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Colin Smythe, 1987, pp. 85-97. 90-1 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emilie Barrington | Commentators have been dismissive of Russell Barrington. Ronald Chapman
calls him a husband of inferior powers. Chapman, Ronald. The Laurel and the Thorn: A Study of G.F. Watts. Faber and Faber, 1945. 89 Blunt, Wilfrid Jasper Walter. ’England’s Michelangelo’. H. Hamilton, 1975. 159 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Fane | VF
and her fellow-poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
were lovers. He later wrote that many of his earlier sonnets were addressed to her. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. My Diaries. A. A. Knopf, 1922, 2 vols. 2: 120 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Fane | VF
's love life was a frequent subject of London gossip. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, she was regarded, in her own time, as a late-Victorian Letitia Landon
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Alice Meynell | Following her early conquest of Tennyson
, AM
went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan
, Aubrey Beardsley
(while he... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
made literary friendships with at least two male poets who apparently saw themselves as her mentor if not her Pygmalion. The one who has held his place in literary history was Wilfrid Scawen Blunt |
Friends, Associates | Emilie Barrington | EB
probably first met painter George Frederic Watts
before she was married, at the studio of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
. There is some uncertainty as to the date of EB
's first meeting with Watts... |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | With her marriage, AG
became part of her husband's impressive social network. She met Queen Victoria
, Heinrich Schliemann
, and James Froude
shortly after her wedding, and visited Robert Browning
and Henry James
on... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Augusta Gregory | One source of inspiration for this play was the 1887-88 imprisonment of AG
's close friend, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
, for protesting against the eviction of tenants during the Land War. McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525. 537, 547 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
's first literary activity was dictating a long Dramatic Poem at the age of six. At sixteen, she met the nearly sixty-year-old poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
, who lived near her parents' home and... |
Timeline
1875: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt published Sonnets and...
Writing climate item
1875
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
published Sonnets and Songs by Proteus, which includes passionate addresses to several women.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
112
Texts
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. My Diaries. A. A. Knopf, 1922, 2 vols.
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, and Lady Margaret Sackville. “Preface”. Selected Poems, Constable, 1919, p. i - x.
Sackville, Lady Margaret, and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Selected Poems. Constable, 1919.