Editing John Addington Symonds (section)

==Personal life==
In [[Switzerland]], he met Janet Catherine North (sister of botanical artist [[Marianne North]], 1830–1890).  They married at [[Hastings]] on 10 November 1864.{{sfn|Waugh|1911}} They settled in London and had four daughters: Janet (born 1865), Charlotte (born 1867), Margaret (Madge) (born 1869) and Katharine (born 1875; she was later honoured for her writing as Dame [[Katharine Furse]]). [[Edward Lear]] wrote "[[The Owl and the Pussycat]]" for the three-year-old Janet.

[[File:Norman Moor.jpg|thumb|Norman Moor]]

While in Clifton in 1868, Symonds met and fell in love with Norman Moor (10 January 1851 – 6 March 1895), a youth about to go up to Oxford, who became his pupil.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Booth |first=H.J. |title=Same-sex desire, ethics and double-mindedness: The correspondence of Henry Graham Dakyns, Henry Sidgwick and John Addington Symonds |journal=Journal of European Studies |volume=32 |issue=125–126 |pages=283–301 |year=2002 |s2cid=161792773 |doi=10.1177/004724410203212514}}</ref> Symonds and Moor had a four-year affair but did not have sex,<ref>{{cite web |title=Infopt.demon.co.uk |url=http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/symonds.htm |access-date=15 November 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061024024308/http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/symonds.htm |archive-date=24 October 2006}}</ref> although according to Symonds's diary of 28 January 1870, "I stripped him naked and fed sight, touch and mouth on these things."<ref>Schultz, Bart (2004) ''Henry Sidgwick: Eye of the Universe – An Intellectual Biography''. Cambridge University Press. pp. 408–409</ref> The relationship occupied a good part of his time, including one occasion he left his family and travelled to Italy and Switzerland with Moor.<ref>{{cite web |title=Symonds, John Addington |url=http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/symondsj.htm|work=Dictionaryofartistorians.org |access-date=15 November 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061003063420/http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/symondsj.htm  |archive-date=3 October 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref> The unconsummated affair also inspired his most productive period of composing poetry, published in 1880 as ''New and Old: A Volume of Verse''.<ref>Buckton, Oliver S. (1998) ''Secret Selves: Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography''. University of North Carolina Press. {{ISBN|080784702X}}. p. 95</ref>