Sharp wrote “I feel another self within me now more than ever; it is as if I were possessed by a spirit who must speak out”. This three-volume collection on brings together Sharp’s own correspondence - a fascinating trove in its own right, by a Victorian man of letters who was on intimate terms with...

Dedication

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To the memory of Noel and Rosemarie Sharp and Esther Mona Harvey

Acknowledgements

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William Sharp’s wife and first cousin, Elizabeth Amelia Sharp, became his literary executor when he died in 1905. Upon her death in 1932, the executorship passed to her brother, Robert Farquharson Sharp. When he passed away in 1945, that role fell to his son, Noel Farquharson Sharp, who, like his fa...

Introduction

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William Sharp was born in Paisley, near Glasgow, in 1855. His father, a successful merchant, moved his family to Glasgow in 1867; his mother, Katherine Brooks, was the daughter of the Swedish Vice Consul in Glasgow. A talented, adventurous boy who read voraciously, he spent summers with his family i...

Chapter Twenty

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Life: 1900 On 3 January 1900, Sharp wrote a letter to Nellie Allen from Chorleywood and enclosed a copy of the poem he had written and delivered at the December meeting of the Omar Khayyam Club. In the poem he alluded to her husband, and in his preliminary remarks he called Grant Allen “a fine write...

Chapter Twenty-One

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Life: 1901When they reached Taormina, the Sharps checked into the Hotel Naumachia which offered spectacular views of the bay of Naxos and Mt Etna. In a January 25 letter to Catherine Janvier, Sharp described the joy he felt in the warmth and beauty of Taormina:Today it was too warm to work contented...

Chapter Twenty-Two

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Life: 1902At the beginning of January, Sharp went to the Riviera in Bordighera where his friend Dr. John Goodchild was caring for his English patients. Elizabeth had planned to join him shortly in Genoa, but instead remained in London caring for her ailing mother. After a few days Sharp went south t...

Chapter Twenty-Three

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Life: 1903Sharp began a diary at that start of the New Year and, as was his habit, abandoned it a few days later. On New Year’s Day, the Sharps had dinner with the novelist Robert Hichens at the beautiful Hotel Timeo just down the hill from the Greek Theater in Taormina. On January 3, they lunched t...

Chapter Twenty-Four

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Life: 1904During his two weeks in Greece in the winter of 1903, Sharp fell in love with its landscape, its classical monuments, and a young American archaeologist. In early December 1904, he returned to Greece, this time with Elizabeth, and stayed four months. Besides renewing his friendship with th...

Chapter Twenty-Five

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Life: 1905In a letter from Bordighera dated January 4, Sharp told Thomas Hardy he had been to San Remo to visit William Dean Howells who ranked Hardy’s work as “foremost of all contemporary work in fiction.” Howells was pleased to hear Hardy valued the “faithful realism” of his work. Sharp told Hard...

Afterword

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News of Sharp’s death was wired to Edith Rinder in London, and she passed it to the newspapers with the information that Sharp was the author of the writings of Fiona Macleod. Six years before he died, Sharp wrote on small white cards a message confessing that he, and he alone, was “the author — in...

Appendix 1

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The letter transcribed below casts light on the final two years of William Sharp’s life. It was written by Catherine Ann (Drinker) Janvier — an American painter, writer, and close friend of Sharp — to Roselle Lathrop Shields, a young American working in Greece as an assistant to an archaeologist. Sh...

Appendix 2

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Location of Letters Recipients of Letters British Library Theodore Watts-Dunton, early February, 1901 Algernon Charles Swinburne, [early October], 1901 Brown University Library Grant Richards, October 20, 1900 Churchill Archive Center, Churchill College, Cambridge Edith Lyttelton, January 8, 1900 Ed...

List of Illustrations

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Fig. 1. Benedictine Abbey on Iona, Inner Hebrides. Photograph by PaulT (Gunther Tschuch) (2019), Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iona_07.jpg 20 Fig. 2. Map of the Inner and Outer Hebrides in Scotland. Map by Kelisi (2007), Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons. wi...

About the publishing team

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Alessandra Tosi was the managing editor for this book.Adèle Kreager performed the copy-editing and proofreading.Anna Gatti designed the cover using InDesign. The cover was produced in InDesign using Fontin (titles) and Calibri (text body) fonts.Luca Baffa typeset the book in InDesign. The text font...

The Life and Letters of William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod”. Volume 2

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Sharp wrote “I feel another self within me now more than ever; it is as if I were possessed by a spirit who must speak out”. This three-volume collection brings together Sharp’s own correspondence - a fascinating trove in its own right, by a Victorian man of letters who was on intimate terms with wr...

Acknowledgements

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Introduction

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William Sharp et al. (2020)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

To the memory of Noel and Rosemarie Sharp and Esther Mona Harvey William Sharp was born in Paisley, near Glasgow, in 1855. His father, a successful merchant, moved his family to Glasgow in 1867; his mother, Katherine Brooks, was the daughter of the Swedish Vice Consul in Glasgow. A talented, adventu...

Chapter Twelve

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Life: January–June, 1895In January 1895 William Sharp wrote to a friend: “London, I do not like, though I feel its magnetic charm, or sorcery. I suffer here. The gloom, the streets, the obtrusion and intrusion of people, all conspire against thought, dream, true living.” The city was “a vast reservo...

Chapter Thirteen

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Life: July–December, 1895For the first three weeks of July, Sharp was “wildly busy” in London, writing and negotiating with Herbert Stone about American editions of The Gypsy Christ and Other Tales (by W. S.) and Pharais and The Sin-Eater (by F. M.). He told Stone that his arrangement with Elkin Mat...

Chapter Fourteen

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Life: January–June, 1896 In December 1895, Elizabeth’s doctor was worried about her health and recommended three months in a warm climate. During the first week of January, her husband accompanied her as far as Calais, and she went on to Florence, where she stayed for several weeks with her aunt. Fr...

Chapter Fifteen

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Life: July–December, 1896 Less than three weeks after Sharp returned to London from Edinburgh in early July, he and Elizabeth left for a long summer holiday in the north. Before leaving, Sharp asked his friend Murray Gilchrist to join them for a few days on the Northumberland coast. In mid-letter, h...

Chapter Sixteen

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Life: 1897 After visiting the Janviers in St. Remy in late December, Sharp went on to the Riviera where, according to Catherine Janvier in her article on “Fiona Macleod and Her Creator William Sharp” (North American Review, 184/612, April 5, 1907, pp. 718–32), he “wandered restlessly from place to p...

Chapter Seventeen

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Life: 1898 Early in 1898, Sharp suffered a “severe nervous collapse” which caused “an acute depression and restlessness that necessitated a continual change of environment.” Elizabeth attributed it to the strain of maintaining a double identity: The production of the Fiona Macleod work was accomplis...

Chapter Eighteen

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Life: January–June, 1899Sharp as Fiona Macleod contributed a lengthy article entitled “A Group of Celtic Writers” to the January issue of The Fortnightly Review. There was too much looseness of phrase, he thought, among journalists who wrote about “the Celtic spirit, the Celtic movement, and that my...