Sir Anthony Deane

According to MS 's later very private admission, she was in love with Anthony Deane . He became engaged in December 1896 to somebody else whom he duly married; but he remembered their friendship with...

In the same period she made two important philosophical friendships: with Anthony Deane , then a curate, and Henry Melvill Gwatkin , Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge . Both wanted to bring her back...

MS 's friend Anthony Deane told her these works were very unusual, but very good indeed at their best.

Her friend Anthony Deane , whose letter MS kept (with Gissing's), wrote that he thought the novel wonderfully written but that the heroine was the most detestable young lady I have ever met between the...

While other friends had reservations, Anthony Deane told MS that this was the very best book he had read for a long time. It received far better reviews in the USA than at home...