She probably met the handsome Watson
, a novelist who was, like her first husband, an Australian, in 1893 when he attended practices of the cricket team of which he and her second husband were...
Friends, Associates
Rosamund Marriott Watson
According to Angela Leighton
, the social scandal that erupted in the wake of RMW
's adultery and second divorce not only created a rift in private between the writer and many of her friends...
Publishing
Rosamund Marriott Watson
The book is dedicated with affection and esteem
Watson, Rosamund Marriott. The Art of the House. G. Bell and Sons, 1897.
prelims
to art critic and professor R. A. M. Stevenson
(cousin of the famous novelist). Earlier versions of the essays had appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette...
Publishing
Julia Constance Fletcher
The title-page records publication both in London (in the Mayfair Series from John Lane
of the Bodley Head
) and New York (from the Merriam Company
).
Other books in the Mayfair Series were Select...
Reception
Mary Wollstonecraft
US art critic and author Elizabeth Robins Pennell
, at the very beginning of her career, published at Boston her Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (which a modern critic, Gary Kelly
, singles out as the...
Timeline
14 May 1885: Americans Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Joseph...
Writing climate item
14 May 1885
Americans Elizabeth Robins Pennell
and Joseph Pennell
dated their preface to A Canterbury Pilgrimage (written by her, illustrated by him) about a three-day journey by tandem tricycle from London to Canterbury loosely following the footsteps...
1899: American folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland...
Writing climate item
1899
American folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland
published Aradia; or, The Gospel of the Witches, which later had a considerable impact on the formation of Neopagan religious movements, including Wicca and Stregheria.
Leland, Charles Godfrey. Aradia; or, The Gospel of the Witches. David Nutt, 1899.
vii, 101-2
Magliocco, Sabina. “Book Review: The New Edition of Leland’s Aradia”. The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, 1999.
Magliocco, Sabina. “Who Was Aradia? The History and Development of a Legend”. The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, Feb. 2002.
Pennell, Elizabeth Robbins. Charles Godfrey Leland: A Biography. Houghton, Mifflin, 1906.
2 (1906): 404
Russell, Jeffrey B. A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics, and Pagans. Thames and Hudson, 1980.
148-53
Texts
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell. A Canterbury Pilgrimage. Editor Buchanan, Dave, University of Alberta Press, 2015.