pattisons

Updated: May 27, 2025

Only three years intervened between my leaving school and my engagement to Mr. T. Humphry Ward, Fellow and Tutor of Brasenose College, Oxford. But those three years seem to me now to have been extraordinarily full. Lincoln and the Pattisons, Balliol and Mr.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1

I had heard him and his work discussed in the Lincoln circle, where both the Pattisons were quite alive to Meredith's quality; but I was at the time and for long afterward under the spell of the French limpidity and clarity, and the Meredithian manner repelled me.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2

One of my clearest memories connected with the Pattisons and Lincoln is that of meeting George Eliot and Mr. Lewes there, in the spring of 1870, when I was eighteen. It was at one of the Sunday suppers. George Eliot sat at the Rector's right hand. I was opposite her; on my left was George Henry Lewes, to whom I took a prompt and active dislike. He and Mrs.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1

When it was done the effect was there the effect she had meant to produce. I shut my eyes, and it all comes back the darkened room, the long, pallid face, set in black lace, the evident wish to be kind to a young girl. Two more impressions of her let me record. The following day, the Pattisons took their guests to see the "eights" races from Christ Church meadow.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1