Graham R : Rosamund Marriott Watson, woman of letters / Linda K. Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Linda K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Watson, Rosamund Marriott, 1863-1911.

Watson, Rosamund Marriott.

Tomson, Graham R., 1863-1911.

Tomson, Graham R.

Poets, English--19th century--Biography.

Poets, English.

Women and literature--England--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (423 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Rosamund Marriott Watson, woman of letters

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rosamund Marriott Watson was a gifted poet, an erudite literary and art critic, and a daring beauty whose life illuminates fin-de-siecle London and the way in which literary reputations are made-and lost. A participant in aestheticism and decadence, she wrote six volumes of poems noted for their subtle cadence, diction, and uncanny effects. Linda K. Hughes unfolds a complex life in Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters, tracing the poet's development from accomplished ballads and sonnets, to avant-garde urban impressionism and New Woman poetry, to her anticipation of literary modernism. Despite an early first divorce, she won fame writing under a pseudonym, Graham R. Tomson. The influential Andrew Lang announced the arrival of a new poet he assumed to be a man. She was soon hosting a salon attended by Lang, Oscar Wilde, and other 1890s notables. Publishing to widespread praise as Graham R., she exemplified the complex cultural politics of her era. A woman with a man's name and a scandalous past, she was also a graceful beauty who captivated Thomas Hardy and left an impression on his work. At the height of her success she fell in love with writer H. B. Marriott Watson and dared a second divorce. Graham R. combines the stories of a gifted poet, of London literary networks in the 1890s, and of a bold woman whose achievements and scandals turned on her unusual history of marriage and divorce. Her literary history and her uncommon experience reveal the limits and opportunities faced by an unconventional, ambitious, and talented woman at the turn of the century.

Contents:

Birth and childhood, 1860-74

Marriage, maternity, and first poems : Tares (1884)

Losing Rosamond Armytage, becoming Graham R. Tomson : 1885-87

Making an entrance, 1888-89

Impressions of London : 1890-91

A presiding poet and critic : 1892

Courting danger : 1893-94

The woman who did : 1894-96

The art of living well : 1897-1902

Twilight in the garden : 1903-6

The death of Mrs. Marriott Watson : 1907-11.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-378) and index.

ISBN:

0-8214-4154-X

OCLC:

191927997