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under Joan Mary Fry, Margery Fry
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Education | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
's university years were essential to her growth as a feminist and social reformer. Her intellectual prowess was observed at an early stage in her course: her tutor in Political Philosophy commented on her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ling Shuhua | His position, teaching modern literature at the university, was made possible by his friend Margery Fry
's connections and sponsored by the Boxer Indemnity Fund
. His relationship with LS began quickly: in a 22... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Roger Fry | His elder sister Joan Mary Fry
became a social reformer. His younger sister Margery Fry
became a distinguished feminist, social reformer, and Principal of Somerville College, Oxford
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Joan Mary Fry, Margery Fry |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Sidgwick | The younger of ES
's sisters, Margaret, did unpaid voluntary work. Rose
, her elder sister, took a first-class honours degree in history and became a distinguished academic, first at Somerville College, Oxford
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Ling Shuhua | Margery Fry
met LS in 1933 on a tour of China, which she undertook as a member of the Universities China Mission
endowed by China after the 1900 Boxer Rebellion against the presence of... |
Friends, Associates | Ling Shuhua | The artists came together at this time: Bell
and Duncan Grant
added small pieces to LS's friendship scroll, and LS painted some of Quentin Bell
's ceramics. LS briefly met Arthur Waley
via Vanessa Bell |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Daryush | Through her mother's cousin Roger Fry
, ED
as a girl met many distinguished people as the friends and guests of her parents: W. B. Yeats
, Ezra Pound
, Henry Newbolt
, Mary Coleridge |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Thinking of their mutual creative influence and of Fry's place in her family, Woolf surprised herself by grieving even more deeply for Fry than she had for another great friend, Lytton Strachey
, who had... |
Friends, Associates | Eleanor Rathbone | |
Literary responses | Eleanor Rathbone | Sir Edward Fry
, the father of ER
's friend Margery Fry
, noted that many readers were surprised by the distant, dispassionate tone taken in this work, Pedersen, Susan. “Eleanor Rathbone (1872-1946): The Victorian Family Under the Daughter’s Eye”. After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain, edited by Susan Pedersen and Peter Mandler, Routledge, 1994, pp. 105-2. 115 |
politics | Virginia Woolf | On 10 May Germany had invaded Holland and Belgium. In the event of an invasion of England, they could indeed expect a terrible personal fate, on account of their anti-war politics, Leonard's anti-war career and... |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | She repeated her request on 8 November. On 20 June 1935 Margery Fry
, Roger's sister, also asked VW
to write his life. Woolf felt acutely the difficulty of trying to please, or not to... |
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