Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Virginia's tutor Janet Case
became her lifelong friend. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 143-4 |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | Along with Mrs Max Müller
, Charlotte Byron Green
(wife of Thomas Hill Green and sister of John Addington Symonds
), and Louise Creighton
, MAW
became a secretary of the Lectures for Women Committee |
Reception | Sappho | Among the earliest of Sappho
's translators into English was Anne Finch
; among recent translators is Mary Barnard
, 1958. Stevie Smith
declined to take her on. Finch chose to render not a love-poem... |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | A. Mary F. Robinson | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Paston | The historian John Addington Symonds
was GP
's second cousin, but she did not have a high opinion of his work. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 |
Publishing | Emma Marshall | |
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 Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley. 189 |
Literary responses | Emma Marshall | John Addington Symonds
replied to the dedication by calling EMone of the brightest ornaments of literature applied to pure and healthful purpose for the youth of England. Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley. 192 |
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 |
Reception | Vernon Lee | One of the first and most appreciative readers of VL
's work was John Addington Symonds
, a leading cultural historian of the time. Her book also brought her the notice and friendship of other... |
Textual Features | Vernon Lee | Here she forgoes a chronological structure in favour of ordering her eclectic subjects (such as ancient sculpture, medieval love poems, Elizabethan plays set during the Renaissance) in an eclectic manner. In this way she imitates... |
Literary responses | Vernon Lee | Lee's work had a highly mixed reception. It was praised by Pater: in a footnote added to the third edition of his Renaissance, he calls Euphoriona work abounding in knowledge and insights on... |
Leisure and Society | Storm Jameson | In Kettering SJ
found respite from a place she disliked in walking and in a subscription to the Times Book Club
, which brought to her attention J. A. Symonds
's Renaissance in Italy and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | John Oliver Hobbes | The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius
, John Wesley
, and Tolstoy
. Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray. 31 |
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