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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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Amelia B. Edwards
, cousin of MBE
, became known as a novelist, travel-writer, and Egyptologist. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 127 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | John Strange Winter | One of JSW
's great-great-grandmothers (on her father's side) was Hannah Pritchard
, a celebrated actress and singer. Henrietta seems not to have known that this made her a great-niece of Alicia Tyndal Palmer
... |
| 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 | Kamila Shamsie | Hosain remained in London, and eventually took up a job with the BBC
. During her time as a broadcaster, she presented her own women's programme for the BBC's Eastern Service, worked variously for the... |
| 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 | Kathleen Raine | KR
's father, George Raine
(the son of a coal-miner in County Durham, and a graduate of Durham University), was an English master and housemaster at the County High School in Ilford, a lover of... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Ann Kelty | Before she was fifteen MAK
fell in love with a young nobleman, an undergraduate who had been at school with her brother. His nodding civilly to her at a concert, Kelty, Mary Ann. The Solace of a Solitaire. Trübner and Co. 122 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Smyth | They were familiar with one another's work before they met. In a 1921 review of Smyth's memoirs, Woolf wrote that ESlooks the militant, working, professional woman—the woman who had shocked the country by jumping... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | May Cannan | At their fifth meeting he asked her to marry him. She was not in love. She agonised about her love for Bevil; she wrote with tears Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. The Tears of War. Editor Fyfe, Charlotte, Cavalier Books. 169 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Leah Sumbel | She fell in love with him at London, where they were playing the leads in Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare
, but after the wedding he sent her back to her mother as being too young... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Bacon | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | A. Mary F. Robinson | They were introduced when Darmesteter translated a volume of her verse into French. He was a Jewish-born French rationalist and academic orientalist, Professor of Persian at the Collège de France
(in succession to Ernest Renan |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Smedley | CS
's father, William Thomas Smedley
, was a chartered accountant and company director, a philanthropist, a free-thinker, and a bibliophile. His magnificent Shakespeare
-Bacon
book collection, including more than a hundred volumes of... |
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