Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago, 1993.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Ella D'Arcy | EDA
may have had affairs with several literary men: Henry Harland
, her editor; John Lane
, her publisher; and M. P. Shiel
, who, like her, contributed to Lane's Keynotes series. The possibility that... |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Egerton | GE
had her only child in November 1895: a son named George Clairmonte. He died in action in September1915, probably on the 26th: he had been holding the foremost trench captured from the Germans and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Egerton | Among recent commentarors, White implies that both GE
's publisher, John Lane
, and his reader, Richard Le Gallienne
, were attracted to her, while Stetz suggests, without denying their attraction, that GE
deliberately engaged... |
Friends, Associates | Ella D'Arcy | Lane
and Harland
were centres of literary social life in London. EDA
had many friends among writers, many of them New Women. They included Evelyn Sharp
, and Constance Smedley
(who found her entirely sincere... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Gertrude Stein | |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | ES
wrote later that at no time in her life did she make intimate friends easily. Most people she had to do with she liked up to a certain point only, but she could count... |
Friends, Associates | Ada Leverson | AL
's circle of friends comprised writers and artists who were to lend the . . . decade its peculiarly distinctive air: Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago, 1993. 27 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Victoria Cross | Reviews of Theodora were mixed. Janet Hogarth
, in a Fortnightly Review article titled Literary Degenerates, and B. A. Crackanthorpe
in Nineteenth Century, criticised the story's representation of sexual desire. qtd. in “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 135 |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Egerton | Pleased with the book's success, Lane
introduced a fiction series named after it: Keynotes. Stetz, Margaret. “Keynotes: A New Woman, Her Publisher, and Her Material”. Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 30 , No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1997, pp. 89-107. 91 |
Occupation | Ella D'Arcy | Prevented by her eyesight from pursuing a career in art, she turned to writing, setting out with stories for magazines. Her low output has been attributed to her being indolent or a procrastinator or both.... |
Occupation | Ella D'Arcy | As well as a writer, EDA
was an editor, assistant to Henry Harland
on the avant-garde Yellow Book, published by John Lane
of the Bodley Head
. Sources agree on this, though she herself... |
Publishing | Florence Farr | |
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... |
Publishing | Rosamund Marriott Watson | She had entered negotiations with Lane
about the book's publication in January 1902: although she was keen for her friend to publish the book, she threatened in a letter to make an abrupt change of... |
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