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Leverson's friendship with Wilde helped her career to flourish. There was no separation between their personal relationship and their creative collaboration. Their work had many stylistic differences; for example, Leverson had a stronger interest in human nature. But the two shared many similarities;
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I was so charmed with seeing you yesterday morning that I must write a line to tell you how sweet and good it was of you to be of the very first to greet me. When I think that Sphinxes are minions of the moon and that you got up early before dawn, I am filled with wonder and joy.
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She had eight younger siblings, one of whom died in infancy. Her living siblings were named Evelyn, George, Charles, Sybil, Frank, Arthur and Violet. Sybil (who later married David Seligman) had a brief affair and long friendship with
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recommended that Leverson's work be read by "those who find laughter no hardship, high comedy a delight, nonsense relaxing, and who are not made uncomfortable by worldlings both comfortable and conscienceless".
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was about. Dennis Poupard says, "some have found Leverson's characters merely vehicles for her wit, others believe she conveys accomplished characterization deftly and swiftly in the epigrammatic dialogue".
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I often thought of you in the long black days and nights of my prison-life, and to find you just as wonderful and dear as ever was no surprise. The beautiful are always beautiful.
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At 19 Ada married Ernest Leverson (1852–1921) without her parents' consent. The marriage broke up when he moved to Canada in 1905. It has been suggested that her trilogy,
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they were from the same cultural background, and they shared interests such as the love of conversation and the sense of fantasy. They quickly became fast friends.
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Although Ada Leverson visited Wilde once more in Paris in 1898, their friendship continued largely through telegrams and letters until his death in 1900.
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Harrison, William M. "Ada Leverson's Wild(e) Yellow Book Stories." The Victorian newsletter, vol. 96 (1999): 21-28. Accessed on 10 June 2014.
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in the early morning of 19 May 1897, Leverson and her husband were part of a small group of friends that met him at the house of
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Leverson's work, though not extremely popular, has been critiqued and analyzed from the 19th century to the present.
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summarized several critics' feelings toward Leverson and reports that she is seen "as a distant descendant of
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Scannell, James. "Welcoming the Outcast Back into Society: Oscar Wilde and Ada Leverson's Ur Moment."
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Brown, John Mason qtd. in Poupard. "Ada Leverson (1895–1933)". Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
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Burkhart, Charles qtd. in Poupard. "Ada Leverson (1895–1933)". Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
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family. Her father was Samuel Henry Beddington, a wool merchant, and her mother's name was Zillah.
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The limits of their friendship were tested in 1895 when Wilde's homosexuality was exposed and
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commented on how her lack of characterization distracted the reader from understanding what
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Poupard, Dennis. "Ada Leverson (1895–1933)". Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
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Debelius, Margaret. "Countering a Counterparts: Ada Leverson and Oscar Wilde."
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Debelius, Margaret. "Countering a Counterparts: Ada Leverson and Oscar Wilde."
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in 1923 as his second wife. Her grandson was short story-writer and novelist
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The Sphinx and Her Circle: A Biographical Sketch of Ada Leverson, 1862-1933
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The Sphinx and her Circle: A biographical sketch of Ada Leverson 1862–1933
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Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde, with Reminiscences of the Author
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Letters to the Sphinx From Oscar Wilde, with Reminiscences of the Author
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Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde, with Reminiscences of the Author
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Crosland, Margaret. "Ada Leverson (10 October 1862-30 August 1933)".
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Crosland, Margaret. "Ada Leverson (10 October 1862-30 August 1933)".
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Critics disagree on which of her novels is the best, some suggesting
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The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
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in which she tries, unsuccessfully, to get Moore to see the young
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Dictionary of Literary Biography (1995). Accessed 29 May 2014.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography (1995). Accessed 29 May 2014.
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Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists, First Series.
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Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists, First Series.
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Leverson began writing during the 1890s, as a contributor to
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believes that it is most fitting for Leverson's last work,
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