Miles, Alfred H. The Victorian Poets: The Bio-Critical Introductions to the Victorian Poets from A. H. Miles’s The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Editor Fredeman, William E., Garland.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Batten Cristall | Her mother was born Elizabeth Batten
; she christened her daughter with her mother's first name and her own birth surname. She was the daughter of a merchant and the sister of a dissenting minister... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Hunt | The youngest of the three girls was christened Sylvia Kingsley after Holman Hunt
's painting Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus (an illustration to Shakespeare
's Two Gentlemen of Verona), but the spelling was changed... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | Throughout her life, VT
took direction from her father, the actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, who had abandoned his job in the family corn-trading business to pursue a career on stage, and had changed... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Amelia B. Edwards
, cousin of MBE
, became known as a novelist, travel-writer, and Egyptologist. Miles, Alfred H. The Victorian Poets: The Bio-Critical Introductions to the Victorian Poets from A. H. Miles’s The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Editor Fredeman, William E., Garland. 385 Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 127 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Michael Field | They took their vow after attending a wedding. Cooper, somewhat abashed at the proceedings, said they swore with the bright world 'round us, that we will remain Poets & Lovers whatever may happen to hinder... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Walker | Her father, John Sadler
, was a well-to-do druggist and tobacconist who came from Stratford upon Avon. His grandfather was probably at school with Shakespeare
, and he himself was connected by marriage with... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Aemilia Lanyer | At about eighteen AL
became mistress to Lord Chamberlain Hunsdon
(soldier, courtier, and patron of Shakespeare
's company), who was forty-five years her senior. In this capacity she lived richly. Woods, Susanne, and Aemilia Lanyer. “Introduction”. The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer, Oxford University Press, p. xv - li. xviii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Wentworth | AW
probably acquired that name at this date, when she married William Wentworth
, a Londoner who may have been (like Shakespeare
's father) in the glove trade. In 1676 she implied that she had... |
Friends, Associates | Winifred Holtby | WH
met Jean McWilliam
at the WAAC unit at Huchenneville. They corresponded throughout Holtby's life, writing to one another as Rosalind and Celia from Shakespeare
's mutually devoted heroines in As You Like It. Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago. 79-81 |
Friends, Associates | Clemence Dane | Toasts were proposed by suffragist Philippa Strachey
and by Ethel Watts
(chair of the Junior Council of the London and National Society for Women's Service
), the latter of whom hoped that in the future... |
Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | |
Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | Other friends mentioned by her niece and biographer were Fredrika Bremer
, Anna Brownell Jameson
, Frances Power Cobbe
, Thomas Carlyle
, George MacDonald
, Lady Eastlake
, Elizabeth Rundle Charles
, Lady Martin |
Friends, Associates | Ethel Wilson | From 1941 to 1943, the Wilsons received into their home sixteen-year-old Audrey Butler
, an evacuee from England. They were generous with both their familial warmth and finances. Audrey shared the Wilsons' love of Shakespeare |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Lennox | CL
won the enduring friendship of Samuel Johnson
and Samuel Richardson
. (With Johnson she quarrelled at least once, and he took pains to heal the breach.) She introduced Giuseppe Baretti
to Johnson, and had... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Lennox | She met Sarah Fielding
at Richardson's house, and became friendly also with Henry Fielding
, Saunders Welch
(the philanthropist, who later offered her employment), and Lord Orrery
. She was presumably the Mrs Lenox with... |
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