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Friends, Associates | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | Once settled in a larger house more suited to entertaining, CADS
renewed old friendships and made new ones with luminaries in London literary society, including Beatrice Harraden
, Arthur Waugh
, H. G. Wells
,... |
Friends, Associates | E. Nesbit | EN
met another of her friends, H. G. Wells
, in 1902. The Blands and Wellses used to see each other at Dymchurch, since Wells had a house nearby. A bitter quarrel interrupted this... |
Friends, Associates | Freya Stark | Through her association with Jeyes, FS
met such literary figures as H. G. Wells
and W. B. Yeats
. She also campaigned for the Anti-Suffrage League
and met key figures in the group, including its... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Cynthia Asquith | LCA
's mother invited to Stanway a wide variety of guests: Arthur Balfour
, Walter Raleigh
, George Wyndham
, Harry Cust
, Charles Whibley
, H. G. Wells
, Evan Charteris
, Hugh Cecil |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Richardson | Shortly moving back to London, DR
contacted an old school friend, Amy Catherine Robbins
(called Jane by her husband, H. G. Wells
), and began socialising with the couple at their home in Worcester... |
Friends, Associates | G. B. Stern | Other plums were Max Beerbohm
, H. G. Wells
, Somerset Maugham
, J. B. Priestley
, and Humbert Wolfe
. Questioned by a reporter about the reason for the party, GBS
suggested that she... |
Friends, Associates | Enid Bagnold | Bagnold's biographer Anne Sebba
writes that try as [EB
] might to belong to the artists' milieu, she could not release her other foot from the smart set. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 148 |
Friends, Associates | Rosita Forbes | In FinlandRF
met the national hero Marshal Mannerheim
. Forbes, Rosita. Gypsy in the Sun. Cassell. 302 |
Friends, Associates | Ford Madox Ford | Living with his grandfather Ford Madox Brown
after his father's death, he met many literary great Victorians at an early age. During his early married life he got to know H. G. Wells
, Joseph Conrad |
Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | VL
initiated a friendship with H. G. Wells
with a letter admiring his novels. They ended this friendship at the outset of World War I because of diverging political views. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 280-1, 290 |
Friends, Associates | Pamela Frankau | Her aunt Eliza Aria
introduced the very young PF
to many of her older, god-like friends: first of all actress Sybil Thorndike
and writers Michael Arlen
and Osbert Sitwell
. Frankau, Pamela. I Find Four People. I. Nicholson and Watson. 133-4 |
Friends, Associates | Berta Ruck | BR
developed a close personal friendship with the writer E. Nesbit
(mother of her art-student friend Iris Bland
). They vacationed together at Grez-sur-Marne in France, and Nesbit stayed for a week with Ruck's... |
Friends, Associates | Amber Reeves | AR
's parents' circle of friends quickly grew to include most of the Fabians: Beatrice
and Sidney Webb
, Edith Nesbit
and her husband Hubert Bland
, George Bernard Shaw
and H. G. Wells
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Pember Reeves |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Richardson | Her affair with Wells
ended after the miscarriage, but they remained friends until his death in August 1946. Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press. 373-5 |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Tynan | At Clarebeg they began holding a literary salon for Irish writers and intellectuals. Their guests included Irish writer Padraic Colum
, his wife Mary Gunning Maguire
(later an eminent literary critic), poet and novelist James Stephens |
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