Ada Leverson (1862–1933)
Auteur de The Little Ottleys
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Œuvres de Ada Leverson
The Sphinx and Her Circle by Violet Wyndham 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Femmes de Siècle: Stories from the 90s - Women Writing at the End of Two Centuries (1992) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
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- Autres noms
- Beddington, Ada (birth name)
The Sphinx - Date de naissance
- 1862-10-10
- Date de décès
- 1933-08-30
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Florence, Italy
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
Florence, Italy - Professions
- novelist
- Relations
- Hudson, Stephen (brother-in-law)
Wyndham, Francis (grandson)
Wyndham, Violet (daughter) - Courte biographie
- Ada Leverson, born Ada Esther Beddington, was the eldest of nine children. .Her mother was a pianist and friend of well-known musicians such as Paderewski and Puccini. In 1881, Ada married Ernest Leverson, a wealthy diamond merchant 12 years her senior, and the couple had two children. However, the marriage was unhappy and ended in separation; it also provided material for many of her novels. Ada began her literary career by contributing witty sketches, parodies, and stories to newspapers and magazines. After her husband's death in 1922, she sold her London house and spent part of each year in Florence.
Her wide circle of friends included the three Sitwell siblings, composer William Walton, Harold Acton, and other members of the British colony in Florence, as well as Somerset Maugham and T. S. Eliot. She remained a devoted friend of Oscar Wilde through his criminal trials, imprisonment, and exile; Wilde’s fond nickname for her was "The Sphinx." Ada would come to be considered the muse of the aesthetic movement of the 1890s, and her own works provide valuable insights into the English society of her day.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 529
- Popularité
- #47,055
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 30
- ISBN
- 103
- Langues
- 1