Alfred Austin

Ouida was granted a Civil List pension of £150 per year, largely through the efforts of Alfred Austin , George Wyndham , and Lady Paget .

Poems, a posthumous collection of IB 's poetry, was prepared by Alfred Austin and published by William Blackwood .

AM was twice nominated for the Poet Laureateship. The first time was in 1895 during the debate about a successor to Tennyson ; it was Patmore who nominated her and strenuously argued for her appointment...

Henry James dismissed IB 's novels as the inevitable nice novel or two of the wandering English spinster.IB 's texts have received scant critical attention, and the little which has been published frequently...

IB believed that her literary strength lay in poetic rather than prose composition, and critics William Raymond and Alfred Austin agreed with her appraisal.Austin found her seven sonnets, The Seven Chords of...

In 1898, after reading Alfred Austin 's The Garden That I Love, EA set herself to writing about her daily life as a mother, wife, reader, and nature-lover at Nassenheide, her husband's ancestral estate...

Frances's association with Rupert Brooke began with the rehearsals for the play and grew into friendship. They discussed their poetry with each other, and Frances counselled and consoled Rupert in his many love affairs. She...

VF made her mark on London's social life. She knew Robert Browning , Algernon Swinburne , Alexander William Kinglake , Alfred Austin , the Duchess of Argyll , James McNeil Whistler , and Lillie Langtry

Little is known of IB 's early life or parentage. Unsubstantiated rumours suggested that she was the illegitimate daughter of a white English father and an Indian mother.