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  • It was not uncommon for British idealists, such as Bosanquet, to represent Mill as adhering to the laissez-faire doctrines of the Old Liberalism (1899:

    Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy Brink, David 2007

  • Her mother, Esther Cleveland, had been the first president's child to be born in the White House; William Bosanquet, her father, managed a steelworks in Yorkshire.

    Philippa Foot obituary Jane O'Grady 2010

  • Bosanquet, the last of James's secretaries, was a brisk, bright young woman with literary ambitions of her own she became a critic who published an illuminating memoir called "Henry James at Work" in which she told what it was like to take dictation from a great writer.

    Her Master's Voice From the Other Side Terry Teachout 2011

  • While there was no question of her being romantically attracted to James—she appears to have preferred women—Bosanquet was clearly obsessed with him, so much so that she later claimed that he continued to dictate to her after he died.

    Her Master's Voice From the Other Side Terry Teachout 2011

  • Now Michael Hollinger has joined their ranks, using Bosanquet's obsession with James as the inspiration for a three-character play called "Ghost-Writer" that was first performed by Philadelphia's Arden Theatre Company in September and has just received its regional premiere in West Palm Beach.

    Her Master's Voice From the Other Side Terry Teachout 2011

  • Theodora Bosanquet is one of those fascinatingly unimportant people privileged by chance to play a choice walk-on part in the history of literature.

    Her Master's Voice From the Other Side Terry Teachout 2011

  • For many years after his death, his devoted typist, Theodora Bosanquet, claimed that she was still receiving dictation from him.

    Excerpts, Quotes, etc. 2008

  • For many years after his death, his devoted typist, Theodora Bosanquet, claimed that she was still receiving dictation from him.

    Typed 2007

  • For many years after his death, his devoted typist, Theodora Bosanquet, claimed that she was still receiving dictation from him.

    April 2007 2007

  • But as Bosanquet pointed out in 1919, this does not mean that language is only poetry, or that the referential dimension of language does not exist.

    Croce's Aesthetics Kemp, Gary 2009

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