John Masefield

At this stage of her life, Rosie's great interest and talent was not writing but painting, like her sister. She set out to make a huge, hanging, illustrated copy of Keats 's Ode to Autumn...

JMS 's major supporters in his dramatic career were William Butler Yeats and Augusta, Lady Gregory , who ran the Irish National Theatre . Other famous literary supporters included G. K. Chesterton , John Masefield

John Masefield in the old Dictionary of National Biographymentioned the Cuala Press publication as strange ironical poems, so like the man speaking.

MS published her critical biography John Masefield, with an introduction describing her visit to him in December 1950.

Planning a book about the poet John Masefield , MS visited him at his house on a freezing day, and heard him read his work.

VSW was one of those in the running for the position of Poet Laureate in succession to Robert Bridges in summer1929. She later secretly hoped to succeed Bridges' successor, John Masefield , and wrote a...

ER was romantically linked to William Archer for most of the 1890s. She also had a long, sometimes antagonistic, sometimes friendly relationship with George Bernard Shaw . In 1909 and 1910, she carried...

Harrow friends of the Robertsons included Irene Stumpp , an employee who cooked German recipes and exercised powers as a medium. The Getting of Wisdom brought HHR personal contact with such writers as John Masefield

HHR 's husband recalled twenty years later how, although average consumers of circulating-library fiction may have been horrified, to young people interested in literary movements this book was a revelation: not merely a new kind...

Her godmother Aunt Bertha lent her the funds to attend Oxford. She was greatly influenced by the lectures of Gilbert Murray , Regius Professor of Greek, who lectured on Greek drama and had also founded...

RP knew T. S. Eliot well enough to enjoy a courtly encounter with him at a bus stop, but she felt his great innovations had not necessarily been a good thing for English poetry, and...

KOB , twentieth-century Irish writer, was successively a journalist, playwright, novelist, essayist, travel writer, and biographer. She was, she said, influenced by the singing voice and by dance music. Masefield said, Don't despise dance music...

CM was awarded a Civil List pension of £75 a year on the recommendation of John Masefield , Thomas Hardy , and Walter de la Mare .

The Poet Laureate and literary critic John Masefield wrote her obituary for The Times, but the paper, seeing that her works had either gone unnoticed or were now forgotten, refused its publication. The...

It appeared with a preface by John Masefield . The novel is written as a response to the social convention (for most an economic necessity) which bore on Mayor herself, that women's primary duty was...