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Education | Antonia White | After the Convent of the Sacred Heart, AW
was sent to St Paul's Girls' School
. The gentle social pressure which here took the place of draconian discipline meant nothing to her: she wore outrageous... |
Publishing | Jan Struther | JS
published The Modern Struwwelpeter, illustrated by Ernest Shepard
: verses about naughty children getting their deserts. Hilaire Belloc
's Cautionary Tales for Children, 1907, seems as much a model as Heinrich Hoffmann
. Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray. 64 |
Publishing | Ruth Pitter | RP
published a volume entitled First and Second Poems 1912-1925. Hilaire Belloc
covered her production costs (again) and supplied a preface which praises her work very highly. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1318 (5 May 1927): 316 |
Publishing | Ruth Pitter | Hilaire Belloc
helped her to achieve this by paying for its publication out of his own pocket. Russell, Arthur et al. “Faithful to Delight: A Portrait Sketch”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, pp. 19-40. 35 |
Literary responses | Ruth Pitter | Belloc
's preface quotes a passage from RP
and compares it with lines by Rudyard Kipling
and by Edith Sitwell
to argue Pitter's superiority to either of these distinguished poets in the classical spirit. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1318 (5 May 1927): 316 |
Friends, Associates | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
knew personally and corresponded with many of the Victorian intelligentsia. In addition to her Langham Place associates already mentioned, her literary friends and acquaintances included Matilda Hays
, Harriet Martineau
, Anthony Trollope
,... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
's son, Joseph Hilaire Pierre René
, generally known as Hilaire Belloc (but to his family as Hilary), was born on 27 July 1870, just before the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war. He too... |
Travel | Bessie Rayner Parkes | In 1896 BRP
travelled with her son
to the United States. He later recalled that she found it appalling as all English people do Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 189 |
Friends, Associates | Alice Meynell | Following her early conquest of Tennyson
, AM
went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan
, Aubrey Beardsley
(while he... |
Occupation | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
resolved early on a writing career, and in 1888 became (through the influence of Cardinal Manning
, a family friend), a journalist for the Pall Mall Gazette. Her earnings contributed, in a tradition... |
Textual Production | Marie Belloc Lowndes | This book was three times reprinted by January 1942. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. prelims |
Literary responses | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
feared her brother
would dislike this book because of his unworldliness, his unawareness of his own fame, and his remoteness from contemporary reality. With the public, however, it was an immediate success, and sold... |
Publishing | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
's book about her brother
's early years, The Young Hilaire Belloc, appeared posthumously in the USA (edited by her daughter Elizabeth Iddesleigh
). It was never published in England. Elizabeth Northcote, Countess of Iddesleigh, et al. “List of Books by Mrs Belloc Lowndes, Foreword”. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947, edited by Susan Lowndes Marques and Susan Lowndes Marques, Chatto and Windus, pp. prelims, 1 - 3. prelims Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus. 217n2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
's brother, Hilaire Belloc
, her junior by two years, grew up to be a Roman Catholic who felt deeply and wrote inspiringly about his religion, a writer like his grandmother, mother and sister... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pamela Frankau | This novel centres around the family and professional relationships of a man with a will to power: J. G. (or Sir James) Baron, a newspaper magnate. PF
insisted that this character was not based on... |
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