Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

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

Cynthia made a three-month visit to Egypt as a child, lasting from early January to March 1895 (the visit on which her mother consummated her love-affair with Wilfrid Scawen Blunt ), but she never afterwards...

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...

This was forty-six years to the day since the child Cynthia Charteris had set out with her mother and siblings to make the same journey (arriving in each case on 4 January the next year)...

EB probably first met painter George Frederic Watts before she was married, at the studio of Dante Gabriel Rossetti .

Commentators have been dismissive of Russell Barrington. Ronald Chapman calls him a husband of inferior powers.Wilfrid Blunt says he was a rich, amiable nonentity: always as clay in her hands. The couple...

They had left London after their wedding on 24 January. Currie's appointment to the Ottoman Porte (which ran until 1898) spanned a particularly violent time in Turkish history, including massacres of Armenians between 1894 and...

The collection also includes a political poem, The Irish Patriots, dedicated to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt .

The Dictionary of Literary Biography suggests that VF 's poetry had wide appeal (rather than that it was ever part of a literary canon) by saying that it was read by upper-class women as well...

A large selection of VF 's personal papers are held at the University of Reading . The collection includes letters, diaries, sketchbooks, as well as manuscript copies of her works. Her letters to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

VF and her fellow-poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt were lovers. He later wrote that many of his earlier sonnets were addressed to her.

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 . Apart from...

According to Wilfrid Blunt 's Secret Diaries, he and AG consummated their relationship, which developed through their passionate support for Egyptian nationalist Arabi Bey .

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt published under his own name a sonnet sequence entitled A Woman's Sonnets, originally penned by AG .

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...