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Friends, Associates | John Oliver Hobbes | She made many friends and acquaintances both as a figure in society and as an author. These included literary people such as George Meredith
, Thomas Hardy
, Punch editor Owen Seaman
, William Archer |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Robins | ER
was romantically linked to William Archer
for most of the 1890s. John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995. 79 John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995. 81-2 |
Intertextuality and Influence | John Oliver Hobbes | JOH
's speeches and interviews regularly deal with literature. In an interview with William Archer
, she admits to admiring Arthur Wing Pinero
's characterisation of women, while noting how little individualised are some of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dodie Smith | Before she became a successful dramatist in the 1930s, DS
made a couple of abortive attempts at writing plays. In 1922 she attempted her first play, Pirate Ships (later renamed Portrait of the Artist's Wives... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Baker | Despite its short run, the play was a critical success. The Times heartily congratulated the Play Actors
on their choice of play, saying that [o]ne such play as this a year would justify the existence... |
Literary responses | Catherine Carswell | The influential William Archer
was said to have demanded the identity of the man who was publishing better drama reviews in Scotland than anything being produced in London. Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald, 2007. 47 |
Literary responses | Florence Farr | |
Literary responses | Rosamund Marriott Watson | Oscar Wilde
's review of this collection for The Woman's World called RMWone of our most artistic workers in poetry. qtd. in Hughes, Linda K. “A Woman Poet Angling for Notice: Rosamund Marriott Watson”. Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930, edited by Marysa Demoor and Marysa Demoor, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 134-55. 139 |
Literary responses | Rosamund Marriott Watson | William Archer
later singled out A South Coast Idyl as showing the wealth of colour on this painter's palette. Archer, William. Poets of the Younger Generation. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1902. 472 Archer, William. Poets of the Younger Generation. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1902. 472 |
Literary responses | Rosamund Marriott Watson | Most reviews of Vespertilia and Other Verses were extremely positive, though only one of them (by Norman Gale
in Academy) mentioned the other books published under RMW
's different pseudonyms. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Literary responses | Rosamund Marriott Watson | William Archer
included RMW
alongside A. E. Housman
, Rudyard Kipling
, Alice Meynell
, E. Nesbit
, and William Butler Yeats
in Poets of the Younger Generation (1902). Archer, William. Poets of the Younger Generation. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1902. vii-viii |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Robins | The play was tremendously controversial because of its sympathetic treatment of infanticide. John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995. 88-9 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Robins | ER
, William Archer
, Alfred Sutro
, and H. W. Massingham
founded the New Century Theatre
, an independent subscription society with intellectual and artistic aims. John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995. 69 Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press, 1996. 353 |
Other Life Event | Ella Hepworth Dixon | EHD
helped William Heinemann
, William Archer
, and Elizabeth Robins
put on a reading of Ibsen'sJohn Gabriel Borkman in London for copyright purposes. She played a small part, which she read in German... |
Textual Production | John Oliver Hobbes | JOH
converted to Roman Catholicism
around this time. The thought she had been giving to religious life manifests itself repeatedly in her work, and influenced her views on literature. In an interview with William Archer |