Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973.
153n1, 147
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Dedications | Ada Leverson | AL
published her third novel, entitled The Limit, dedicated to Robert Ross
. Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973. 153n1, 147 |
Dedications | Ada Leverson | She dedicated this too to Robert Ross
. Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973. 147 |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. B. C. Jones | Robert Ross
, journalist, art historian, and Roman Catholic convert, who is remembered principally as a friend of Oscar Wilde
, was her uncle. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. under Robert Baldwin Ross |
Friends, Associates | Ella Hepworth Dixon | Initial members of the Club included Sidney Low
, Mrs H. G. Wells
, Lady Mond (later Lady Melchett)
, William Heinemann, May Sinclair
, W. B. Yeats
, Robert Ross
, Gertrude Kinnell
,... |
Friends, Associates | Nina Hamnett | She took up old friendships, making visits out of wartime London to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska
in Gloucestershire and Roger Fry
at Guildford (where Lady Strachey
led the party in evening literary games). She breakfasted regularly with... |
Friends, Associates | Ada Leverson | AL
's first meeting with Oscar Wilde
is variously dated 1892 or 1893. They became very close, exchanging compliments, paradoxes, and flattery. Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Viking, 1987. 392 Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973. 21 |
Friends, Associates | Ada Leverson | By the 1920s most of AL
's earlier friends were either dead or living abroad. But she was sought out by the novelists Somerset Maugham
and Ronald Firbank
, and by Wilde's younger son, Vyvyan Holland |
Literary responses | Ada Leverson | Robert Ross
closed A Note of Explanation which he contributed to the book in a tone of well-meant condescension: if Prospero is dead we value all the more the little memories of Miranda. Leverson, Ada, and Oscar Wilde. “Reminiscences of the Author”. Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde, Duckworth, 1930, pp. 19 -49. 16 |
Textual Production | Ada Leverson | AL
abandoned the biography she had begun of Robert Ross
; it was to be entitled A Modern Memory: Recollections of Robert Ross and Some of His Friends. Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973. 78, 152n1 |
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