In 1880 Robinson met historian and critic John Addington Symonds
. Symonds was apparently quite taken by her intelligence and beauty, possibly to the point of infatuation. He had strong reservations about her friendship with...
Dedications
Emma Marshall
She worked hard at the research for this book, which she dedicated to John Addington Symonds
.
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley.
189-91
She found her pen could not glide through it as with everyday tales.
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley.
189
She worried about...
Dedications
A. Mary F. Robinson
AMFR
published her second volume of poems, which she entitled The Crowned Hippolytus and dedicated to John Addington Symonds
.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2801 (1881): 8
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
240
Cultural formation
Vernon Lee
In her biography of Lee, Vineta Colby
repeats longstanding judgments about the author's sexuality by emphasizing that she made no effort to conceal her attachments to women,
Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press.
335
but was hesitant about—even repelled by—sexual intimacy...