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    inspired by his same-sex affairs. Symonds was born in Bristol, England, in 1840. His father, the physician John Addington Symonds (1807–1871), was the author...
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    John Addington Symonds (10 April 1807 – 25 February 1871) was an English physician and writer. He was born in Oxford, where his father John Symonds was...
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    three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend and fellow poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds. The term "runcible"...
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  • Cambridge John Symonds (surveyor), British Army officer and surveyor John Addington Symonds (physician) (1807–1871), British author John Addington Symonds (1840–1893)...
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  • Late Victorian writers such as Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, and John Addington Symonds saw in "Greek love" a way to introduce individuality and diversity...
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    and same sex love by numerous individuals of this time such as John Addington Symonds with his essay “A Problem in Greek Ethics,” or Oscar Wilde with...
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    went on to publish John Addington Symonds, a Biography (1895), followed in 1923 by Letters and Papers of John Addington Symonds. In both, he suppressed...
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    English poet and critic John Addington Symonds spent 20 years in correspondence trying to pry the answer from him. In 1890, Symonds wrote to Whitman: "In...
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    "nobile" (noble). Yet in New Italian Sketches, published in 1882, John Addington Symonds writes about Montepulciano as the place "where Bacchus, when he...
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  • emancipation in the Victorian era, such as Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, who used it to describe a comradely love that would bring about...
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