Here she became a friend of novelist and neighbour George Meredith
, who introduced her to a wider social circle, including W.T. Stead
, the scandalous journalist and editor of the Pall Mall Gazette...
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Angela Thirkell
She hated New York (a nasty, paltry . . . negligeable place) but loved Boston (where her old-fashioned hostess, Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton
, seemed to her a wonderful remnant of the Flowering...
