G. K. Chesterton

It was a long and difficult labour, with a delivery that bruised the baby's head, and a retained placenta which lost her mother a lot of blood. In the book GG later wrote about...

EJ attended Oxford High School . It was while a thirteen-year-old pupil there, she later said, that she discovered the excitement of poetry: first The Battle of Lepanto by G. K. Chesterton , then The...

To many of her contemporaries (especially male contemporaries), AM symbolised the perfection of Woman and Mother. Many descriptions of her suggest Woolf 's Mrs Ramsay in To the Lighthouse. Coventry Patmore and Francis Thompson

MG equally admired A. R. Orage and Holbrook Jackson , founders of the Leeds Arts Club . At the Club she also met Edward Carpenter , W. B. Yeats , G. K. Chesterton , George Bernard Shaw

JMS 's major supporters in his dramatic career were William Butler Yeats and Augusta, Lady Gregory , who ran the Irish National Theatre . Other famous literary supporters included G. K. Chesterton , John Masefield

Other friends included Sir Charles Peake , Richard Law (later Lord Coleraine), Herbert Morrison , G. K. Chesterton , and George Bernard Shaw .

The title-page bears a quotation from G. K. Chesterton about a new people who take over the land as the sad squires of the past withdraw. The book gives a sense that an old...

Following her death, G. K. Chesterton in a laudatory (if sexist) review classed LMA with Austen as an early realist, and praised her apt depictions of human truths.She was a favourite writer...

In June 1921, they moved the Fellowship Services to the Guildhouse, Eccleston Square, where MR continued to preach until she resigned in December 1936. She resigned because, she said, I have to choose; and...

Having publicly advocated a police boycott in May 1919, CCM was again arrested and sentenced to four months at Cork Jail . She kept in close contact with her sister Eva Gore-Booth , friend and...

In his Foreword to the volume, Sir Shane Leslie finds the influences of Shelley , Yeats , Tennyson , Kipling , Housman , Chesterton , and Fiona MacLeod (pen-name of William Sharp). Yet according to...

Poems also includes Cornford's much anthologized and perhaps best known poem (later something of an embarrassment to her), the triolet To a Fat Lady seen from the Train, which sets a lyric repetition into...

As a reviewer, AM dealt with writing by Samuel Johnson , Christina Rossetti , George Eliot , Emily Brontë , Dickens , Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Jean Ingelow , Charles Williams ,...

Contributors included EN herself, Gerald Gould , G. K. Chesterton , Andrew Lang , and Oswald Barron . Nesbit's idealistic promise that she would print the plain naked unashamed truth, in contrast to the lies...

CD , with eleven more members of the Detection Club (including Dorothy L. Sayers , Agatha Christie , G. K. Chesterton , Anthony Berkeley , Freeman Wills Crofts , G. D. H. and M. I. Cole