Robert Ross

Standard Name: Ross, Robert

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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
She was a tower of strength to him at the time...
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
William Rothenstein
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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Texts

Wilde, Oscar. Collected Works. Editor Ross, Robert, Musson, 1909, 14 vols.
Wilde, Oscar, and Robert Ross. De Profundis. Methuen, 1905.
Wilde, Oscar et al. Letters from the Sphinx to Oscar Wilde. Duckworth, 1930.