Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber.
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Friends, Associates | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
lived with the Stephens
after their marriage, and while there became a friend of such literary figures as George Meredith
, Henry James
(who described her after an early encounter as exquisitely irrational)... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | The artistic pursuits of EG
's daughter Meta produced friendships with John Ruskin
and with Pre-RaphaelitesWilliam Holman Hunt
and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 455 |
Friends, Associates | Kate Greenaway | Much has been written about KG
's intimate and longstanding, but often unpredictable, friendship with prominent art critic John Ruskin
. They were introduced through a painter named Henry Stacy Marks
. Engen, Rodney. Kate Greenaway: A Biography. Macdonald Futura Publishers Limited. 62 |
Friends, Associates | Violet Hunt | Friends of VH
's family included John Ruskin
, Edward Burne-Jones
, John Millais
, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, Robert Browning
, and Christina Rossetti
, who read Violet's early poems. VH
also met and... |
Health | Elizabeth Siddal | ES
was persuaded by Ruskin
to winter on the Continent for the sake of her health. Marsh, Jan. Elizabeth Siddal, 1829-1862: Pre-Raphaelite Artist. The Ruskin Gallery. 15 |
Health | Anna Mary Howitt | She seems to have had a nervous breakdown after Ruskin
destroyed her confidence in her painting ability, a breakdown which expressed itself through spiritualist beliefs: she claimed to be directed in her actions by invisible... |
Instructor | Flora Shaw | On her father's promotion in 1861, a move to the Commandant's house enabled the voracious young reader to take advantage of unlimited access to the library of the Royal Military Academy
, where she was... |
Instructor | Emilie Barrington | Later, she said that she took art lessons from Ruskin
as well as Arthur Hughes
. Westwater, Martha. The Wilson Sisters. Ohio University Press. 123, 126 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Intertextuality and Influence | John Strange Winter | At the height of her career JSW
gave an account of her early development to the memoirist George Bainton
. She said she hardly knew how or why she came to be able to write... |
Intertextuality and Influence | John Strange Winter | Relaying this account in his biography of JSW
, Oliver Bainbridge
wrote that she researched, along with the methods of Wilkie Collins, those of her other favourites including Charles Reade
, Charles
and Henry Kingsley |
Intertextuality and Influence | Flora Annie Steel | Through a brother-in-law of her husband's, Henry Nettleship
, she had access to advice in her historical work from leading scholars: Pater
, Ruskin
, Benjamin Jowett
, Mark Pattison
, and Goldwin Smith
. Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann. 66 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michael Field | Since 1890 Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper had been preparing to write a collection of poems responding to European art by touring several important galleries (including, besides the National Gallery
in London, the Louvre |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vernon Lee | Dedicated to the author's companion and fellow writer Mary Robinson
, this volume is another collection of essays, some previously published. Here Lee begins to dismiss the moral implications and social conditions within and around... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dinah Mulock Craik | The kingdom of the title is the moral sphere assigned to women in Victorian gender ideology. The book opens with an epigraph from John Ruskin
. The story is of twins who illustrate the extremes... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amabel Williams-Ellis | She first took a strong interest in Ruskin
when A. J. Cook
, editor of the Miner, told her that reading Ruskin inspired him to enter Leftist politics. She then researched and wrote on... |
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