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Intertextuality and Influence | Maggie Gee | MG
was six when her five-page, semi-illegible saga on the life of an Indian woman teapicker won third prize in the Typhoo Tea
Handwriting Competition (which despite its name must, she says, have disregarded writing... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | Praise for this second public collection was more muted and criticism more probing than before. John Westland Marston
, reviewing this volume too for the Athenæum, was still positive, but regretted that most of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Williams | SW
read the poetry of George MacDonald
, Dora Greenwell
, and Algernon Charles Swinburne
, and commented on it in her letters. Plumptre, Edward Hayes, and Sarah Williams. “Memoir”. Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse, Strahan, p. vii - xxxiii. xxii |
Friends, Associates | Jane Ellen Harrison | Moving in London's social and creative circles, JEH
also met Robert Browning
, Walter Pater
, Henry James
, and Alfred Tennyson
(whom she called the most openly vain man I ever met)... |
Friends, Associates | Isabella Neil Harwood | The position of her father
as a journal editor put INH
in contact with several well-known authors of the time. She attended a party with her parents at the house of Dr Westland Marston
... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Ogle | The success of AO
's first novel introduced her to England's literary circles. She knew the BrowningRobert Browning
s, the CarlyleThomas Carlyle
s, the ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
s, Tennyson
, and Swinburne
. She also kept company with Mary Louisa Molesworth
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Meyers, Terry L. “Swinburne Reshapes His Grand Passion: A Version by ’Ashford Owen’”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 31 , No. 1, West Virginia University, pp. 111-15. 111 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Sewell | ES
was taken on holiday in the year after her mother died, by Captain
and Lady Jane Swinburne
(parents of the young Algernon Charles Swinburne
), to the Lakes of Westmorland and Capheaton in Northumberland. Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green. 106 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Friends, Associates | Pauline Johnson | During this visit she was invited to the home of Theodore Watts-Dunton
, where she met Algernon Swinburne
. When Charles G. D. Roberts
met Swinburne two years later, the latter confirmed that PJ
and... |
Friends, Associates | Ouida | Aside from her mother, Ouida
kept mainly male company. Her circle included (in addition to her publishers William Harrison Ainsworth
and William Tinsley
) A. C. Swinburne
, Richard Monckton Milnes
(famed for his large... |
Friends, Associates | Emily Lawless | Lawless made a number of other friends, acquaintances, and admirers through her writing, including Margaret Oliphant
, an early friend and critic, Rhoda Broughton
, George Meredith
, Aubrey de Vere
, Mary Augusta Ward |
Friends, Associates | Dora Sigerson | After her marriage, DS
became acquainted with a number of notable literary figures, including George Meredith
(who wrote the introduction to The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter, 1907), Thomas Hardy
(who wrote the... |
Friends, Associates | Ella Hepworth Dixon | EHD
considered William Heinemann
, her publisher, as also a close personal friend. Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson. 51, 77, 187 |
Friends, Associates | Walter Pater | From his time at BrasenoseWP
knew Oscar Browning
. In Oxford and London he socialized with Edmund Gosse
, Algernon Charles Swinburne
, Simeon Solomon
, Oscar Wilde
, Vernon Lee
, A. Mary F. Robinson |
Friends, Associates | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Anne Thackeray (later ATR
) spent Easter at Richard Monckton Milnes
's home, where she met Swinburne
. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 134-5 |
Friends, Associates | Violet Fane | VF
made her mark on London's social life. She knew Robert Browning
, Algernon Swinburne
, Alexander William Kinglake
, Alfred Austin
, the Duchess of Argyll
, James McNeil Whistler
, and Lillie Langtry |
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