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Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | The writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was VT
's uncle. A son of her grandfather's second marriage, he retained the original surname. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was IT
's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote... |
Friends, Associates | Rose Macaulay | RM
also regularly attended the gatherings of the Friday Hampstead Circle
, presided over by Dorothy
and Reeve Brooke
and later by Sylvia
and Robert Lynd
. These gatherings were attended by RM
's friends... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Mew | In the mid-1890s, CM
attended literary gatherings at the home of Henry Harland
, editor of The Yellow Book. Other writers who attended included Evelyn Sharp
, Netta Syrett
, Max Beerbohm
, Kenneth Grahame |
Friends, Associates | Ella Hepworth Dixon | She often stayed with Count
and Countess Lützow
in Bohemia, where in 1903 she met Sibell, Countess of Cromartie
, whom she described as one of my firmest friends ever since. Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson, 1930. 71 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Constance Smedley | In Birmingham CS
had become friendly with Coulson Kernahan
, through whom she also met Flora Klickmann
. Edgar Pemberton
brought her acquainted with theatrical figures she deeply admired: Sir Charles Wyndham
, and Mary Moore |
Friends, Associates | Julia Frankau | Literary figures regularly seen at JF
's afternoon salons included George Moore
, Max Beerbohm
, Arnold Bennett
, Somerset Maugham
, Sir William Nicholson
, and Sir Henry Irving
. It was at one... |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | ES
wrote later that at no time in her life did she make intimate friends easily. Most people she had to do with she liked up to a certain point only, but she could count... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Ottoline Morrell | LOM
continued to entertain in London, hosting such guests as Ethel Smyth
, Elizabeth Bowen
, Stephen Spender
, Max Beerbohm
, Hope Mirrlees
, Djuna Barnes
, Charlie Chaplin
, the novelist Henry Green |
Friends, Associates | Amabel Williams-Ellis | AWE
's friends and associates included Edith Sitwell
, whose poems she often published in The Spectator; Storm Jameson
, a political mentor Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983. 128 |
Friends, Associates | Helen Waddell | Friends from HW
's time at Somerville
included Maude Clarke
, whom she had known as a child and whose Oxford position had been one of the incentives to go there, and archaelogist Helen Lorimer |
Friends, Associates | G. B. Stern | Other plums were Max Beerbohm
, H. G. Wells
, Somerset Maugham
, J. B. Priestley
, and Humbert Wolfe
. Questioned by a reporter about the reason for the party, GBS
suggested that she... |
Friends, Associates | Ada Leverson | AL
's circle of friends comprised writers and artists who were to lend the . . . decade its peculiarly distinctive air: Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago, 1993. 27 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Muriel Spark | The story takes place at Geneva in Switzerland (transferred from the Italian scene of the real-llife original), on an estate owned by a Baron Klopstock, among characters of diverse national origins. The protagonist, Lister the... |
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