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- She came from a distinguished Essex family, and married the art and literary critic Alexander Gilchrist in 1851 after a two year engagement. Five years later, in Chelsea, west London, the couple became next-door neighbours of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle, both of them notable writers.
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She came from a distinguished Essex family, and married the art and literary critic Alexander Gilchrist in 1851 after a two year engagement. [1] Five years later, in Chelsea, west London, the couple became next-door neighbours of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle, both of them notable writers.
Mar 5, 2019 · At the age of twenty-three, after a two-year engagement, Anne had married a talented art and literary critic of humble means, whose writing would soon earn the friendship of some of Great Britain’s most celebrated authors: Thomas Carlyle, George Eliot, John Ruskin, Herbert Spencer, Christina Rossetti.
Writer. 25 February 1828 – 29 November 1885 Anne Gilchrist, her life and writings (1887) Edited by Herbert Harlakenden Gilchrist, with a prefatory notice by William Michael Rossetti [1] Photogravure from a painting by her son, made in 1882 After Herbert Harlakenden Gilchrist, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Career. Five years later, in Chelsea, west London, the couple became next-door neighbours of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle, both of them notable writers. The Gilchrists" marriage, one of intellectual equals, was cut short when Alexander died of scarlet fever in 1861. She and Alexander had four children: Percy, Beatrice, Herbert, and Grace.
Jan 1, 2006 · Abstract. Examines Anne Gilchrist's education, her courtship with and marriage to Alexander Gilchrist, and her reading habits in order to analyze "the intersection of interpretation and fantasy, sex and religion, author and reader" that her response to Whitman's writings entails; works toward identifying "the change triggered by her interaction ...
- Steve Marsden
- 2006
History. This book is the biography of Anne Burrows Gilchrist, an Englishwoman of letters and widow of Blake's biographer, who fell in love with Wait Whitman when she read Leaves of Grass. In 1876 she came to America hoping to marry Whitman, but instead became his beloved friend.
Nov 7, 2006 · Anne Gilchrist, her life and writings. Edited by Herbert Harlakenden Gilchrist, with a prefatory notice by William Michael Rossetti by Gilchrist, Anne Burrows, 1828-1885; Gilchrist, Herbert Harlakenden, 1857-
