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...

Blunt presented LMS in terms that were unlikely to cut much ice with the audience she probably most desired. He called her the best . . . of our English poetesses, at least of the...

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 poems in this volume speak of war, loss, and guilt. Its dedication, to someone gone from the poet, reads: I will not call you when the wind / Calls you lamentingly at night...

During the 1970s EJH began writing plays for television. She contributed a script to the popular series Upstairs Downstairs, which was broadcast in November 1974 and won an award. She also wrote a play...

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

In the same year as her Three Plays for Pacifists, LMS published Selected Poems. Her literary admirer W. S. Blunt wrote a Preface for the volume.

LMS published much of her work with small publishers and in limited edition chapbooks, now fragile and rare, though both the British Library and the Bodleian have most of her publications. She was a Fellow...

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

During her tenure she encountered the very best and worst of late Victorian poetry. Her published reviews, which critic Marysa Demoor characterises as expressing a hesitant modernism, included appraisals of Robert Bridges ,...

This volume runs from her youth up to Charles Stewart Parnell 's death in 1891, the closing of an important historical and personal chapter. She spends considerable time on her relationship with her father ...

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...

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)...

Ouida wrote to her friend W. S. Blunt expressing fear for her life; biographer Jane Jordan thinks this fear related to problems with her tenancy.