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Education | Maria Riddell | The future MR
was in all probability privately educated. At sixteen she wrote a poem to commemorate the pleasure of reading with a friend the works of Milton
, Pope
, Spenser
, Shakespeare
... |
Education | Christina Rossetti | From 1878 to 1880, she took classes on Dante
's Divine Comedy at University College, London
, perhaps in part because she was helping Alexander Grosart
to trace references from Italian poets for his edition... |
Education | Marjorie Bowen | |
Education | Dora Greenwell | Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke. 73 |
Education | Frances Mary Peard | However, according to her biographer, Mary J. Y. Harris
, she was largely self-taught. Her mother never restricted her reading, and she later remembered tackling at an early age such classics as Scott
, Shakespeare |
Education | Jane Porter | Their mother, when she was widowed, moved her family to Edinburgh in 1780, partly for the sake of the future advantage of a good education at a moderate expense. In Scotland, wrote JP
later, a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Elizabeth I | In the minds of the country's ruling class, a marriage for the queen was also necessary. Some have supposed that at this stage Elizabeth may have hoped to marry one day, although she herself publicly... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Alicia D'Anvers | ADA
's immortal Sing-Song / How all th'old Dons were at it Ding-dong D’Anvers, Alicia. The Oxford-Act. Randal Taylor. 9 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine S. Macquoid | A Bad Beginning's title-page quotes Spenser
, on the wrongness of binding in love those whom God has not ordained for each other. As every English reader would have expected, the French marriage of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Selina Davenport | The title-page quotes Milton
on the false dissembler (Satan). The story opens with Edmund Dudley, the lover and the poet, confiding to a married friend, Leopold Courtenay, his love for Althea, to whom he has... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isak Dinesen | She divided her life into five stages, supplying a motto for each stage, in Latin, French, and English. The English motto, for the final stage, came from Spenser
's The Faerie Queene: Be bold... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Constance Smedley | The Fortunate Shepherds (which brings hill shepherds into contact with Forest of Dean miners) uses the twelve verse-metres used by Spenser
in his Shepheards' Calendar. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susannah Dobson | This work abounds in quotations from Lydgate
, Spenser
, Sainte-Palaye
, William Hayley
, and others. It cites the Roman historian Tacitus
in confirmation that the chivalric system was originally Germanic. O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press. 139 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Stewart | The novel is set in southern France: the action begins in Avignon and concludes in Marseilles. Epigraphs to chapters range through the traditional English literary canon—Chaucer
, Spenser
, Shakespeare
, Robert Browning |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Isabella Duberly | FID
turns frequently in her journal to literary quotation. She often quotes from poets whose popularity has waned, but she also calls on Longfellow
, Duberly, Frances Isabella. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6. Editor Kelly, Christine, Oxford University Press. 216 |