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In late 1873, when he was 23, Stevenson was visiting a cousin in England when he met two people who became very important to him: Fanny (Frances Jane) Sitwell and Sidney Colvin. Sitwell was a 34-year-old woman with a son, who was separated from her husband. She attracted the devotion of many who met her, including Colvin, who married her in 1901.
The first Sitwell venture was the series of Wheels anthologies produced from 1916. [2] These were seen either as a counterweight to the contemporary Edward Marsh Georgian Poetry anthologies, or as light 'society verse' collections.
Portrait of Fanny Stevenson. Bournemouth, 1885. After Hervey's death, Fanny moved to Grez-sur-Loing, where she met and befriended Robert Louis Stevenson. [5] A 1916 recollection of her by L. Birge Harrison (published in the Centenary Magazine) recalls, "That she was a woman of intellectual attainments is proved by the fact that she was already a magazine writer of recognized ability, and that ...
He was born on 18 June 1845 in West Norwood, in what is now London, at St. John's Lodge on Knight's Hill, a nine-bedroom, twenty-one acre estate, to Bazett David Colvin, an East India merchant, and Mary Steuart, daughter of William Butterworth Bayley, Chairman of the East India Company Both sides of his family were connected to British India, his father as a partner in the trading company of ...
Sitwell was born on 20 April 1797. He was the only son of Sir Sitwell Sitwell, 1st Baronet and, his first wife, Alice Parke (d. 1797). From his parent's marriage, he had two sisters, Mary Alice Sitwell (who married their cousin, Sir Charles Wake, 10th Baronet, in 1815; after her death, Charles married George's sister-in-law, Charlotte Tait), [1] and Anne Elizabeth Sitwell (who married Gen. Sir ...
Sitwell was working on the first volume, originally to have been called The Cruel Month, by May 1941, and completed it in the spring of 1942. [12] [13] Eventually he decided on the title Left Hand, Right Hand!, reflecting the chiromantic principle that the left hand reveals those traits of character that are inborn and the right hand those that stem from one's own will. [14]
Frances Jane van Alstyne (née Crosby; March 24, 1820 – February 12, 1915), more commonly known as Fanny J. Crosby, was an American mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer. She was a prolific hymnist, writing more than 8,000 hymns and gospel songs , [ a ] with more than 100 million copies printed. [ 1 ]
Fanny Dénoix des Vergnes (1798–1879), French poet and writer; ... Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), English poet and critic, eldest of three literary Sitwells;