Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | E. Nesbit | In 1886, the year of EN
's first stillbirth, her close friend Alice Hoatson
became her husband's mistress. Alice then moved in with the Blands: ostensibly to help look after their children, since she was... |
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... |
Literary responses | E. Nesbit | Again Kipling
wrote comically about the effect of her work in his household: how the governess had to read it aloud again and again, and his wife just all the time, and himself too, but... |
Textual Production | E. Nesbit | It had previously been serialized from May 1905 to May 1906. Its treatment of ancient Egyptian magic owes a good deal to the information she received from Ernest Wallis Budge
, Keeper of Egyptian and... |
Literary responses | E. Nesbit | In 1915 EN
was granted a Civil List
pension of sixty pounds a year. She was pleased but not overwhelmed at this honour, and thought it ought not to have been taxed. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 365-6 |
Textual Production | Naomi Mitchison | By the early 1930s NM
was making as much by her writing, in real terms, as nearly fifty years later. She reviewed novels—reading at great speed even while breast-feeding, since she claimed that [i]f the... |
politics | Dora Marsden | According to Marsden, twelve to fifteen people were expected at this meeting but about a hundred attended. Meetings were open to male and female members and were held every two weeks, while chapters were also... |
Textual Production | Dora Marsden | The Freewoman's other writing contributors included Rebecca West
, radical feminists Ada Neild Chew
and Theresa Billington-Greig
, Stella Browne
(later founder of the Abortion Law Reform Association
), anarchists Rose Witcop
and Guy Aldred |
Leisure and Society | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | After her schooling at St Leonard's
and before her brief time at Oxford
, Margaret Haig Thomas (later MHVR
) was a debutante for three years, during which time she was bored and suffocated by... |
Occupation | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West
, Stella Benson
, Cicely Hamilton
, Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor
and Ellen Wilkinson
, Virginia Woolf
, Naomi Mitchison
, E. M. Delafield
, Rose Macaulay |
Publishing | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | In 1909, during the height of her involvement with the WSPU
, Margaret Haig Mackworth
(later MHVR
) began publishing articles in praise of militancy Spender, Dale. Time and Tide Wait for No Man. Pandora Press, http://UofA. 34 Spender says she was... |
Publishing | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | |
Fictionalization | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | In 1937 H. G. Wells
, who had crossed swords with MHVR
before that, depicted her as the unpleasant Lady Roundabout, editor of a weekly women's magazine called Wear and Tear. Bland, Lucy. “Book Reviews: Angela V. John, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Turning the Tide: The Life of Lady Rhondda</span>”;. Women’s History, Vol. 2 , No. 1, pp. 25-6. 26 |
Education | Olivia Manning | At home Olivia was encouraged to love poetry, learned to read by the time she was four, and was later subjected to piano lessons which taught her nothing. As a teenager and thinking of herself... |
Friends, Associates | Ethel Mannin | EM
entertained frequently at Oak Cottage, the house she bought after separating from her first husband. Visitors included Paul Tanqueray
, Louis Marlow
, Ralph Straus
, Norman Haire
, Fenner Brockway
, and... |
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