Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

In December 1910, VM and her siblings Francis , Olivia , and Monica published a poetryanthology called Eyes of Youth (a phrase taken from Shakespeare 's The Merry Wives of Windsor), which included, along...

Beauman, who uses the title Lovers for one of the chapters in her biography of LCA , also believes that her subject's sexual development was shadowed by her mother's relationships with Arthur Balfour (which puzzled...

Her husband took great interest in other women and was frequently unfaithful. Having married him somewhat reluctantly, she, too, conducted an emotional life elsewhere: Beauman writes that she became pregnant by the writer Wilfrid Blunt

Commentators have been dismissive of Russell Barrington. Ronald Chapman calls him a husband of inferior powers.Wilfrid Blunt says he was a rich, amiable nonentity: always as clay in her hands. The couple...

According to Wilfrid Blunt 's Secret Diaries, he and AG consummated their relationship, which developed through their passionate support for Egyptian nationalist Arabi Bey .

VF and her fellow-poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt were lovers. He later wrote that many of his earlier sonnets were addressed to her.

VF 's love life was a frequent subject of London gossip. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, she was regarded, in her own time, as a late-Victorian Letitia Landon . Apart from...

While she was in Egypt, AG was thrown into close contact with Wilfrid Blunt , an anti-imperialist whom she had already met in England. Although they did not consummate their relationship until they were back...

Despite dealing with a debilitating illness, Jane took two lovers during her marriage: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and (later) Wilfrid Scawen Blunt .

EB probably first met painter George Frederic Watts before she was married, at the studio of Dante Gabriel Rossetti .

With her marriage, AG became part of her husband's impressive social network. She met Queen Victoria , Heinrich Schliemann , and James Froude shortly after her wedding, and visited Robert Browning and Henry James on...

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...

LMS made literary friendships with at least two male poets who apparently saw themselves as her mentor if not her Pygmalion. The one who has held his place in literary history was Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

LMS 's first literary activity was dictating a long Dramatic Poem at the age of six. At sixteen, she met the nearly sixty-year-old poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt , who lived near her parents' home and...

One source of inspiration for this play was the 1887-88 imprisonment of AG 's close friend, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt , for protesting against the eviction of tenants during the Land War. The play...