Panter-Downes, Mollie. At The Pines. Hamish Hamilton.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Mollie Panter-Downes | MPD
recreates the odd household of Watts-Dunton
and Swinburne
in Putney, the backwoods of West London, Panter-Downes, Mollie. At The Pines. Hamish Hamilton. 1 Panter-Downes, Mollie. At The Pines. Hamish Hamilton. 18 |
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 |
Education | Adrienne Rich | The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family... |
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 |
Education | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
and her sister were educated by a series of governesses in London. It was not until the arrival of Miss Truelock
in 1850 that their father was finally satisfied with a governess's ability... |
Textual Features | A. Mary F. Robinson | |
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... |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | CR
's critical reputation stood very high from the appearance of Goblin Market, although she was not a popular poet. H. Buxton Forman
in Our Living Poets, 1871, got her middle name wrong... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
's earliest works, which emerged from a romantic sense of beauty, defined her for decades of readers. In the first phase of her writing career, from 1900 to about 1915, she sought the delicate... |
Reception | Sappho | In England, Swinburne
helped promote a newly sexualized and aestheticized Sappho with Anactoria in Poems and Ballads (1866). |
Textual Features | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | The historical Sappho
had emerged by this date as a potentially lesbian or bisexual figure, for instance in the work of Swinburne
; Michael Field
's Long Ago was published this same year. Dawson's Sappho... |
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. |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Sewell | It records a trip through Westmorland and Northumberland taken with a family group that included the young Algernon Charles Swinburne
. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. |
Violence | Elizabeth Siddal | As Marsh
puts it, this deeply transgressive act has since then been a symbol of religious, poetic and personal violation. Marsh, Jan. The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal. Quartet Books. 21 Rossetti himself justified his action to Swinburne
as follows: no one so much as... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Siddal | The poems attracted little attention initially, except for their connection to ES
's life. Swinburne
was unusual in his estimation of her as a veritable artist in her own right. He discerned in A Year... |
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