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Chapter Fifteen

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (6 avr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

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 Seventeen

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (6 avr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

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

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (6 avr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Life: January–June, 1899 Sharp 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 m...

Introduction

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (6 avr. 2021)

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 Nineteen

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (6 avr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Life: July–December, 1899 William Sharp asked W. B. Yeats several times in May and June to review the new Fiona Macleod book of stories, The Dominion of Dreams. He assumed Yeats would praise the book and thereby boost its sales. On July 3, while he was in the west of Scotland, he received a letter t...

Chapter Sixteen

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (6 avr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

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...

The Life and Letters of William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod”. Volume 3

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (6 avr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

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...

Afterword

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (6 avr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

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...

Chapter Twenty

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (6 avr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

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-Two

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (6 avr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Life: 1902 At 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...

Chapter Twenty-One

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (6 avr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Life: 1901 When 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 content...

Chapter Twenty-Five

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (6 avr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Life: 1905 In 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 Har...

Introduction

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (6 avr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

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-Three

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (6 avr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Life: 1903 Sharp 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...

Chapter Twenty-Four

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (6 avr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Life: 1904 During 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 t...

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

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (6 avr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

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...

Chapter Fourteen

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (6 avr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

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 Thirteen

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (6 avr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Life: July–December, 1895 For 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 Ma...

Chapter Twelve

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (6 avr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Life: January–June, 1895 In 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 reserv...

Chapter Three

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (27 mai 2019)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Life: 1885–1886 Sharp remained healthy for most of 1885, and his productivity increased accordingly. He continued as London art critic for the Glasgow Herald, joined the staff of The Academy, and contributed articles to The Art Journal, the Examiner, The Athenaeum, and Good Words. He thought a year...

Chapter Nine

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (27 mai 2019)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Life: July–December, 1892 On July 8, Sharp apologized to Julia Ward Howe’s daughter, Maud Howe Elliott, for being unable to entertain her since he had no residence in London. His wife, moreover, was leaving in a few days for the Wagner festival in Bayreuth, and he was “going into Sussex to superinte...

Chapter Four

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (27 mai 2019)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Life: 1887–1888 In the spring of 1887, Sharp succeeded his friend Eric Robertson as editor of the “Literary Chair’ in The Young Folk’s Paper, a widely-circulated weekly paper for boys. This appointment brought “steady work” and “a reliable income, a condition of security hitherto unknown to us, whic...

Chapter Eight

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (27 mai 2019)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Life: January-June, 1892 Sharp left for America on January 6 aboard the Teutonic and arrived in New York a week later where he stayed initially with the Stedmans at 173 West 78th Street. Through his friendship with the Stedmans and others who he met during his first visit to New York in 1889, he had...

Introduction

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (27 mai 2019)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Chapter Five

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp et al. (27 mai 2019)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Life: 1889 The high point of 1889 for Sharp was his first visit, in late summer, to Canada and the United States. His interest in North America increased as he edited in early 1889 a collection of American sonnets for Scott’s Canterbury Poets, and he came to view the States as a market for his work....

Notice biographique - Henry Durand-Davray

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Lara Thierry Henry Durand-Davray was born in Gennevilliers and was raised by a mother who came from the region of Cévennes and an Alsatian father (Escuret 2005). He was educated at the Sorbonne University, though he attended few of his classes, as he would often spend time abroad. He would later set...

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(11 févr. 2021)

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"William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was far more than just a pseudo...

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Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

(11 févr. 2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was far more than just a pseudon...

The Inner Seas in Deirdre of the Sorrows by John Millington Synge (1909)

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Céline Savatier-Lahondès (31 mars 2017)

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Depuis le récit datant du xiie siècle, conservé dans le Livre de Leinster, jusqu’aux versions modernes, Longes mac nUislenn (L’Exil des fils d’Usnach), a été maintes fois raconté. C’est une histoire de voyage, de l’Irlande vers l’Écosse, puis vers l’Irlande à nouveau, après un exil de sept années. D...

Les  mers intérieures dans Deirdre des douleurs de John Millington Synge (1909)

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Céline Savatier-Lahondès (2017)

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Depuis le récit datant du 12e siècle, conservé dans le Livre de Leinster, jusqu’aux versions modernes, Longes mac nUislenn (L’Exil des fils d’Usnach), a été maintes fois raconté. C’est une histoire de voyage, de l’Irlande vers l’Écosse, puis vers l’Irlande à nouveau, après un exil de sept années. De...

“The primary colour of delight”: Walter Pater and Gold

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Lene Østermark-Johansen (23 août 2016)

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Le poète irlandais William Sharp se souvient avoir rendu visite à Walter Pater dans son appartement universitaire, lorsqu’un rayon de soleil doré provoqua soudain une longue réflexion sur l’or de la part du critique victorien. En effet, pendant toute sa carrière d’écrivain, Pater ne cesse de méditer...

Late-Victorian Paganism: the case of the Pagan Review

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Bénédicte Coste (23 janv. 2015)

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This article discusses the sole issue of the Pagan Review (1892) single-handedly authored by William Sharp under various pen names. Sharp was a poet, literary critic and novelist who began publishing under the pen name of Fiona MacLeod in 1894. Penned down in an astonishingly brief time when Sharp w...

Late-Victorian Paganism: the case of the Pagan Review

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Bénédicte Coste (23 janv. 2015)

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Misplaced Labels: Picturing Keats from Severn to Ruskin

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Caroline Bertonèche (1 déc. 2014)

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Alors que nous nous apprêtons à célébrer les 200 ans de la mort du poète, le nom de Keats, l’âge qu’il avait quand il mourut mais également la date exacte de sa naissance font, encore aujourd’hui, l’objet de multiples erreurs de lecture (ou d’écriture) : la source d’un mythe dont la substance n’est...

La représentation des Highlands par le « crépuscule celtique » : idéologie et synecdoque culturelle chez William Sharp / Fiona Macleod

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Philippe Laplace (2003)

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International audience

Inauguration de la plaque commémorative en l'honneur de Thomas Jefferson : discours de M. William Sharp : [photographie de presse] / Agence Meurisse

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Agence de presse Meurisse. Agence photographique (commanditaire) (1919)

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