George Saintsbury

She attended the Victoria School for Girls in Belfast from 1900, then took a year of private study from 1907 to 1908 before going on to read English (with Latin and French) at Queen's University, Belfast

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes several of HW 's relationships with older men (like Gregory Smith , George Saintsbury , and Otto Kyllmann , chairman of Constable ) as platonic love affairs.Kyllmann

Besides Saintsbury , another important early and lifelong friend of HW from an older generation was George Pritchard Taylor , a missionary in India whom she met in 1914 on one of his rare visits...

This was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Two years after it appeared it was the favourite choice of young officers in hospital during the Crimean War. A guardsman confessed that...

AMP was, with her sister, one of those praised by John O'Keeffe in his poem Female Authors, Being an Answer to a Lady, who asserted, that by transmigration the soul of Shakespeare lived in the...

This book was praised by the Pall Mall Gazette and New York Home Journalas sane and healthy, sweet and dainty. Not only that: a serious critic, George Saintsbury , reviewed it for...

In the Academy, George Saintsbury praised the novel as an excellent piece of work, although he thought it too long. He declared: [h]ow [Morna] escapes and returns to Eagle Island, and how poetical justice...

ML was by no means forgotten after her first discovery. She was praised in John Duncombe 's Feminiadand accorded the largest share of space in Poems by Eminent Ladies.William Cowper , who...

GE began to be remembered quite inaccurately as a humourless and self-righteous preacher, to whom invention was less important than exhortation. In 1895George Saintsbury , one of the shapers of English Literature...

Byron praised the Canterbury Tales, but in 1913George Saintsbury asserted that Byron had done so either irresponsibly or impishly. They were, he said, not exactly bad, but also as far as possible from...

George Saintsbury found the title ridiculous and the novel worthy of the title. He blamed it for blocks of spiritless and commonplace historic narrative, and for such anachronisms the gentle and elegant heroine being educated...

George Saintsbury , writing in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, grouped CN as a poet with Mathilde Blind , Amy Levy , and Michael Field . He called her writing a...

George Saintsbury in 1913 developed an attack on this book as very nearly consummate in badness. . . . a fair example of the worst imitations of Mrs. Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis conjointly, though without...

It was in connection with this play (but before he read the manuscript) that George Saintsbury told HW she had the authentic mark of the Maker [that is, the poet] on your forehead.

Smith's Manon had an indifferent reception and weak sales. The three contemporary reviews, all mixed, all expressed anxiety about the work's moral effect. A later translation by Helen Waddell , 1931, provided the...