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Walter Pater was the son of a surgeon, educated at King’s School, Canterbury, and the Queen’s College, Oxford. In 1864 he was elected a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. He was an admirer of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, and an aesthete. From 1869 he lived with his two unmarried sisters, Hester and Clara, in Oxford and then in London: the decoration of his houses was greatly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite artists. Among his friends were numbered Swinburne, the Rossettis, the Humphrey Wards and the Mark Pattisons.
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Martin, B. (1989). Walter Horatio Pater. In: Martin, B. (eds) The Nineteenth Century (1798–1900). Macmillan Anthologies of English Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20159-4_56
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