Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones

Standard Name: Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Coley

Connections

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Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Yonge
This was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Two years after it appeared it was the favourite choice of young officers in hospital during the Crimean War. A guardsman confessed that...
Family and Intimate relationships Virginia Woolf
VW 's mother, née Julia Prinsep Jackson (1846-95), was born in India and brought to England as a toddler.
Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File.
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She was a favourite niece (and subject) of photographer Julia Margaret Cameron , on whom...
Family and Intimate relationships Ethel Wilson
EW 's parents were married by Frederic William Macdonald , an uncle of Rudyard Kipling , brother of writer Louisa Baldwin , and brother-in-law of painter Edward Burne-Jones . As a wedding gift, Macdonald gave...
Literary responses Mary Augusta Ward
The novel was a massive success, in the words of Henry Jamesa momentous public event.
Ward, Mary Augusta. “Introduction”. Robert Elsmere, edited by Rosemary Ashton, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xviii.
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Critic John Sutherland deems it the best-selling work of quality fiction in the nineteenth century. By the summer...
Friends, Associates Susan Tweedsmuir
ST 's parents made connections through friendship as remarkable as those made for them by family descent. Her mother was a friend of many writers and intellectuals of both sexes, including Marie Belloc Lowndes ,...
Family and Intimate relationships Angela Thirkell
AT 's mother, Margaret Mackail , was the only daughter of the painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones and moved in the highest circles both socially and culturally. She used to read to her children at breakfast...
Family and Intimate relationships Angela Thirkell
Angela's Burne-Jones grandparents were important in her growing up. She visited at the London house and spent childhood holidays at the country house of the eminent painter Sir Edward (which she wrote about in her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Angela Thirkell
The first house is that of her Burne-Jonesgrandparents : The Grange, North End Lane, Fulham.
Thirkell, Angela. Three Houses. Robin Clark.
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This house once belonged to the novelist Samuel Richardson , and AT opens the book on Susannah Highmore
Friends, Associates Algernon Charles Swinburne
After leaving Eton , he met Lady Pauline and Walter Trevelyan , who became longtime friends and supporters. At Oxford he was first introduced to the Pre-Raphaelites , and he forged friendships with Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Textual Features Emily Jane Pfeiffer
Her poem Any Husband to Many a Wife (whose title marks it as a response to Robert Browning 's Any Wife to Any Husband) is a sardonic comment on marital relations. The husband in...
Occupation William Morris
Founding members of the Firm included Ford Madox Brown , Edward Burne-Jones , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , and Philip Webb , in addition to the proprietors.
Maas, Jeremy. Victorian Painters. Barrie and Jenkins.
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Spencer, Robin. The Aesthetic Movement: Theory and Practice. Studio Vista.
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Occupation William Morris
Between then and 1898 it produced fifty-three books. WM 's The Story of the Glittering Plain (April 1891) was the first. The fortieth was the famous Chaucer (1896) containing eighty-seven wood-cuts by Edward Burne-Jones ...
Friends, Associates William Morris
While studying at Oxford , he became a friend of Edward Burne-Jones , who introduced him to an extraordinary group of young men: William Fulford , Charles Faulkner , Cormell Price , and Richard Watson Dixon
Education William Morris
After touring Northern France in search of Gothic cathedrals, he and Burne-Jones abandoned their shared intention to enter the church. He turned towards architecture and Burne-Jones to art.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Residence William Morris
He moved to London when his employer, G. E. Street , relocated his office to the city. Morris lived with Burne-Jones at 1 Upper Gordon Street, Bloomsbury, and later at 17 Red Lion Square.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Timeline

1 January 1856: The first issue of the Oxford and Cambridge...

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1 January 1856

The first issue of the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine was published; it sold for a shilling.

1875: Arthur Lasenby Liberty opened a shop, the...

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1875

Arthur Lasenby Liberty opened a shop, the present Liberty's , at 218a Regent Street, London, and imported soft oriental fabrics, kimonos, and fans; he also persuaded British manufacturers to print oriental designs on soft...

By 12 May 1877: The Grosvenor Gallery (welcomed by a Punch...

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By 12 May 1877

The Grosvenor Gallery (welcomed by a Punch cartoon on this date) was established as an alternative exhibition arena to the Royal Academy shows. It lasted until 1891.

26 June 1896: William Morris's Kelmscott Press published...

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26 June 1896

William Morris 's Kelmscott Press published the works of Chaucer , one of its most splendid and famous productions.

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