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* Ianthe was also the nickname given by the poet Walter Savage Landor to Sophia Jane Swift, the love of his life whom he was never able to marry.
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His beautiful great-great-grandmother, Lady Charlotte Harley, was intimately acquainted with Lord Byron, who called her " Ianthe ", so much so that he dedicated his famous poem, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, to her.
It is possible that Ianthe was living at Bristol, but the evidence is not clear, and in 1837 she went to Austria, where she remained for some years.
However, the line never came to fruition ; the Otago Central Railway terminated in Cromwell and no railway was built south of Ross, just a lightly laid bush tramway to serve logging interests near Lake Ianthe.
Ianthe ( Ἰάνθη ; English translation: " purple or violet flower ") was a name attributed to three figures in Greek mythology.
Iphis was a woman raised as a man ; she also fell in love with Ianthe and prayed to the gods to allow the two women to marry.
* Ianthe, one of the 3, 000 sons and daughters of the Titan Oceanus and Tethys, the Oceanids mentioned in homeric hymn to Demeter, who was one of the nymphs with the Goddess of Spring, Persephone when she was captured by Hades, the God of the Underworld.
* Ianthe was the nickname the poet Lord Byron gave to his intimate friend, Lady Charlotte Harley, to whom Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is dedicated.
* Mary Saunderson was sometimes referred to as Ianthe throughout her life, due to her excellent performance of the character in The Siege of Rhodes.
However, a lengthy privately-owned bush tramway ran south from the railway station to serve logging interests near Lake Ianthe and a railway extension from Ross through the Haast Pass to connect with the Otago Central Railway was proposed in the early 20th century.
The " Ianthe " of the dedication was the term of endearment he used for Charlotte Harley, the 13-year-old daughter of Lady Oxford ( the artist Francis Bacon's great-great-grandmother ).
She raised her daughter as a boy to spare her husband Ligdus's wrath, and Iphis was later transformed into a man by the Egyptian goddess Isis in order to marry her true love, the maiden Ianthe.
When Ruval's challenge finally comes, on starlight, Rohan realizes that Pol needs to be told the truth about birth: that Ianthe bore him and he was a diarmadhi.
* Pol: Born in 704, he was Rohan's son by Ianthe, though did not know the truth of his birth until 728.
Ianthe and also
* Ianthe is also the name of a fictional city in the nation of Ophir ( see also Hyborian Age, Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard )
Ianthe and by
The 17th-century publisher Humphrey Moseley once claimed to possess a manuscript of a play based on the Iphis and Ianthe story, by William Shakespeare.
The love poems were inspired by a succession of female romantic ideals — Ione, Ianthe, Rose Aylmer and Rose Paynter.
Ianthe and Jane
He had many visitors, most notably in 1829 Jane Swift ( Ianthe ) now a widow, who inspired him to write poetry again.
Ianthe and love
Having reached the age of adolescence, Iphis fell deeply in love with another girl, Ianthe, and prayed to Juno to allow her to marry her beloved.
The lesbian love story between Iphis and Ianthe, in Book IX of Ovid's the Metamorphoses, is most vivid.
Ianthe and whom
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Foster cites Camilla and Diana, Artemis and Callisto, and Iphis and Ianthe as examples of female mythological figures who showed remarkable devotion to each other, or defied gender expectations.
Experiments published in 2000 discuss the analysis of two different snail populations from two different sources-Lake Ianthe and Lake Poerua in New Zealand.
Ali Smith's 2007 novel Girl Meets Boy is based on Ovid's story of Iphis and Ianthe, and is part of the Canongate Myth Series.
He had an older brother, Harley, five years his senior, two younger sisters, Ianthe and Winifred, and a younger brother, Edward.
His sister, Ianthe, twelve years his junior, recalled that Bacon made drawings of ladies with cloche hats and long cigarette holders.
Ianthe dreamed warm, the horizon did not alter, she thought of Weeds, and of the dark freezing house down the lane that no one could see.
* Ianthe, a young girl, so beautiful that when she died the Gods made purple flowers grow around her grave.
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