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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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. 267 |
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. vii |
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. 11-14 |
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. 15 Spencer, Robin. The Aesthetic Movement: Theory and Practice. Studio Vista. 15 |
Occupation | William Morris | |
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/. |
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