Theodore Watts-Dunton

Her English retained a faint foreign accent,and in an obituary critic Theodore Watts-Dunton blamed her German background for deficiencies he perceived in her written linguistic precision and idiom.

Theodore Watts-Dunton 's tribute in the Athenæum recalled a noble band of women represented by George Eliot , Mrs. Webster, and Miss Cobbe , who, in virtue of lofty purpose, purity of soul, and deep...

Emma, Baroness Orczy , published a novel entitled Petticoat Government, which she dedicated to Theodore Watts-Dunton .

Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre in the LeedsSchool Board offices. There MG continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and...

During this visit she was invited to the home of Theodore Watts-Dunton , where she met Algernon Swinburne . When Charles G. D. Roberts met Swinburne two years later, the latter confirmed that PJ and...

They made a friend of George Meredith some time before 1890 and visited him often. (When he sent them a signed copy of Modern Love, they were inspired to dance a Dionysic dance...

She made her entry into the city's literary circles with the assistance of Theodore Watts , later Theodore Watts-Dunton, who was a great supporter of her work and later a colleague at the Athenæum...

Vernon Lee described in a diary entry attending a housewarming party at the Websters' in Hammersmith: An enormous crush, of ill-dressed, eccentric literary pumps. I spoke to Wm Rossetti , Watts , Sharp ...

He likely owed much of the happiness and stability of his later years to the dedication and support of Theodore Watts-Dunton .

Little is known of LCE 's married or social lives, or of how much, if at all, she moved in literary circles: one writer she knew was Theodore Watts-Dunton . She wrote and illustrated a...

He battled his alcoholism with the help of Theodore Watts-Dunton , who intervened when his friend's health teetered dangerously close to death. In September 1879 Swinburne went to live at The Pines, the Putney house...

In 1880 Theodore Watts described this volume as unequal, and noted that the poet was later inclined to disparage her initial publication.Watts, writing after Elliot's death, judged that The Pythoness...

LCE received little critical attention either during or after her lifetime. The Athenæum obituary by Theodore Watts described her as perhaps the latest noticeable addition to that bright roll of female poets of which Scotland...

Theodore Watts gave this book a glowing review in the Athenæum. The Westminster Review called the Italian-influenced pieces a series of wonderful picture verses . . . containing each a...

In the 1870s and 1880s AW was mentioned in periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic—in Harper's and Scribner's, for instance, as well as in English publications—as one of the leading women poets of...