EB
's other literary, cultural, and civic-minded friends included writers Henry James
, Walter Pater
, Walter Crane
(a moving spirit in the Arts and Crafts movement), and the philathropist and reformer Octavia Hill
(whose...
Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976.
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She supported...
Family and Intimate relationships
George Eliot
Rosemary Ashton
, biographer of GE
, says there is no evidence whether or how much GE regretted the childlessness which she chose because of law and social prejudice. After Lewes told his three sons...
Family and Intimate relationships
Sophia Jex-Blake
Octavia Hill
, raised by her mother and grandfather after her father suffered a mental breakdown, lived through a childhood of poverty. She impressed SJB
with her work ethic and sensitivity, and was herself moved...