By the beginning of the nineteenth century, Romanticism was prevalent throughout European culture. Individual expression was paramount, no matter what the consequences for reason, good taste and at times even sanity. The consequence was a plethora of highly-charged, emotive works in literature and, particularly, art and music. Robert Schumann was...
By the beginning of the nineteenth century, Romanticism was prevalent throughout European culture. Individual expression was paramount, no matter what the consequences for reason, good taste and at times even sanity. The consequence was a plethora of highly-charged, emotive works in literature and, particularly, art and music. Robert Schumann was the archetypical Romantic composer: his counterparts in painting included Caspar...
FLORENCE FARR: ‘THE NEW WOMAN’ Actor, writer and director Florence Farr was a renaissance woman of the 1890s. An intimate of George Bernard Shaw, who called her ‘The New Woman’, and WB Yeats, she was a feminist who led by example. She also was a priestess of The Golden Dawn, a...
FLORENCE FARR: ‘THE NEW WOMAN’ Actor, writer and director Florence Farr was a renaissance woman of the 1890s. An intimate of George Bernard Shaw, who called her ‘The New Woman’, and WB Yeats, she was a feminist who led by example. She also was a priestess of The Golden Dawn, a secret society whose members included Yeats, Shaw and theatre impresario...
