Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press, 2003.
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Cultural formation | Vernon Lee | In her biography of Lee, Vineta Colby
repeats longstanding judgments about the author's sexuality by emphasizing that she made no effort to conceal her attachments to women, Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press, 2003. 335 |
Dedications | Emma Marshall | She worked hard at the research for this book, which she dedicated to John Addington Symonds
. Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900. 189-91 qtd. in Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900. 189 |
Dedications | A. Mary F. Robinson | AMFR
published her second volume of poems, which she entitled The Crowned Hippolytus and dedicated to John Addington Symonds
. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2801 (1881): 8 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Family and Intimate relationships | A. Mary F. Robinson | In 1880 Robinson met historian and critic John Addington Symonds
. Symonds was apparently quite taken by her intelligence and beauty, possibly to the point of infatuation. He had strong reservations about her friendship with... |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Paston | The historian John Addington Symonds
was GP
's second cousin, but she did not have a high opinion of his work. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 |
Friends, Associates | Mona Caird | MC
shared a particularly close friendship with William Sharp
(who wrote as Fiona MacLeod
) and his wife Elizabeth
(who wrote his biography). The Sharps, who lived a two minutes' walk away from MC
in... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Virginia's tutor Janet Case
became her lifelong friend. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 143-4 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michael Field | They were greatly influenced in their writing of this book by Henry Thornton Wharton
's recent Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation. Containing John Addington Symonds
' translation of Sappho
's... |
Leisure and Society | Storm Jameson | In Kettering SJ
found respite from a place she disliked in walking and in a subscription to the Times Book Club
, which brought to her attention J. A. Symonds
's Renaissance in Italy and... |
Literary responses | Vernon Lee | Lee's work had a highly mixed reception. It was praised by Pater: in a footnote added to the third edition of his Renaissance, he calls Euphoriona work abounding in knowledge and insights on... |
Literary responses | Amelia B. Edwards | In contrast to this, J. A. Symonds
in the Academy (where ABE
was well known and respected as a contributor) gave her credit as a serious Egyptologist. This, he said, was no mere book of... |
Literary responses | Emma Marshall | John Addington Symonds
replied to the dedication by calling EMone of the brightest ornaments of literature applied to pure and healthful purpose for the youth of England. Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900. 192 |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | Along with Mrs Max Müller
, Charlotte Byron Green
(wife of Thomas Hill Green and sister of John Addington Symonds
), and Louise Creighton
, MAW
became a secretary of the Lectures for Women Committee |
Publishing | Emma Marshall | |
Publishing | Emily Hickey | In 1895 EH
contributed a preface to a new edition of Roden Noel
's Livingstone
in Africa (a poem originally published in 1874). In 1901 she collaborated with John Addington Symonds
in a privately printed... |
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