Theodore Watts-Dunton

Standard Name: Watts-Dunton, Theodore

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Friends, Associates Augusta Webster
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...
Friends, Associates Augusta Webster
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 ...
death Augusta Webster
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...
Literary responses Augusta Webster
Theodore Watts gave this book a glowing review in the Athenæum.
Rigg, Patricia. Julia Augusta Webster: Victorian Aestheticism and the Woman Writer. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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Athenæum. J. Lection.
2803 (1881): 229
The Westminster Review called the Italian-influenced pieces a series of wonderful picture verses . . . containing each a...
Literary responses Augusta Webster
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...
Friends, Associates Algernon Charles Swinburne
He likely owed much of the happiness and stability of his later years to the dedication and support of Theodore Watts-Dunton .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Health Algernon Charles Swinburne
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...
Textual Features Christina Rossetti
The internal monologue The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children occupied a bridging position in this volume between the first section of secular poems, and the final shorter section of devotional pieces. Its scriptural...
Textual Features Mollie Panter-Downes
MPD recreates the odd household of Watts-Dunton and Swinburne in Putney, the backwoods of West London,
Panter-Downes, Mollie. At The Pines. Hamish Hamilton.
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and a house called The Pines. Swinburne's imprudences
Panter-Downes, Mollie. At The Pines. Hamish Hamilton.
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had reduced his health and finances and made...
Textual Production Mollie Panter-Downes
MPD published a biography about the domestic life of Algernon Charles Swinburne and Theodore Watts-Dunton , entitled At The Pines: Swinburne and Watts-Dunton in Putney.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1973
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research.
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Friends, Associates Pauline Johnson
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...
Education Mary Gawthorpe
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...
Friends, Associates Michael Field
They made a friend of George Meredith some time before 1890 and visited him often.
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray.
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(When he sent them a signed copy of Modern Love, they were inspired to dance a Dionysic dance...
Dedications Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
Emma, Baroness Orczy , published a novel entitled Petticoat Government, which she dedicated to Theodore Watts-Dunton .
Lancaster, William Joseph Cosens. “Petticoat Government”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 430, p. 125.
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Emmuska, Baroness Orczy,. Petticoat Government. Hutchinson.
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Friends, Associates Lady Charlotte Elliot
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...

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