EA’s relationships with women were a central thread in her life, a stabilizing source of emotional nurturance, political solidarity, and professional mentorship.
Ardis, Ann. “New Women and the New Hellenism”. The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact, edited by Angelique Richardson and Chris Willis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, pp. 107-22.
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As a teenager, she had an intense and possibly romantic friendship...
Friends, Associates
Ethel M. Arnold
EA, with her sister Julia
, was one of Lewis Carroll
’s child-friends. He helped her through a difficult childhood and the death of her mother, and she remembered him fondly in later years. Carroll...
Leisure and Society
Ethel M. Arnold
Following her introduction to Ellen
and Marion (Polly) Terry
as a teenager, EA hoped to become an actress, having acted in several amateur theatricals in Oxford.
Wachter, Phyllis E. Surname Arnold; Occupation: Spinster; Avocation: New Victorian Woman. Temple University, Apr. 1984.