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Education | G. B. Stern | At first Gladys was taught at home by governesses: the stout, comical angel Fräulein Sanders, Stern, G. B. Monogram. Chapman and Hall, 1936. 48 Stern, G. B. Monogram. Chapman and Hall, 1936. 49 |
Education | Susan Tweedsmuir | She was, however, always reading as a child: she and her sister had few books, but knew by heart whole chapters of the ones they did have. As a child Susan hated Mrs Mortimer
's... |
Education | Agatha Christie | By the time Agatha was born, Clara Miller
believed that girls ought not to learn to read before the age of eight. Defiantly, Agatha taught herself to read at five. She eagerly devoured Lewis Carroll |
Education | Anne Ridler | Her education began with her mother and a governess. At six she began attending a class run by the sister of another Rugby master. Later came visits to a piano teacher, and at home a... |
Friends, Associates | Algernon Charles Swinburne | He had ties to writers Anne Ogle
, Mary Louisa Molesworth
, Ouida
, and Mathilde Blind
. His movement through England's literary circles also brought him into the company of Thomas Carlyle
, James Anthony Froude |
Friends, Associates | Anne Ogle | The success of AO
's first novel introduced her to England's literary circles. She knew the BrowningRobert Browning
s, the CarlyleThomas Carlyle
s, the ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
s, Tennyson
, and Swinburne
. She also kept company with Mary Louisa Molesworth
. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Meyers, Terry L. “Swinburne Reshapes His Grand Passion: A Version by ’Ashford Owen’”. Victorian Poetry, No. 1, West Virginia University, pp. 111 - 15. 111 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Ogle | She may have had the help or collaboration of Swinburne
during its conception (many years before its eventual publication). They probably met on 17 August 1858 at Wallington in Northumberland. They both stayed there... |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | Since the Langham Place Group
had provided a social space for women in 1860, several organizations had already challenged the flourishing institution of men's clubs. The Lyceum Club
came on the scene at a time... |
Reception | Charlotte Mary Brame | CMB
's novels became a publishing brand, and her names (her most-used pseudonym, Bertha M. Clay, as well as her name itself and its mutilated form as Braeme) were freely used by later... |
Textual Features | G. B. Stern | A listing of books which GBS
feels to be particularly her own includes Jane Austen
, Edna St Vincent Millay
, Dorothy Parker
, and Rebecca West
's essays. But most of the women authors... |
Textual Production | Noel Streatfeild | In 1961 NS
had the honour of appearing in Bodley Head
's series of monographs on children's writers, where she joined such household names as Mary Louisa Molesworth
, Juliana Horatia Ewing
, Lewis Carroll |
Textual Production | Marghanita Laski | ML
edited and introduced Victorian Tales for Girls, which includes tales by Mary Louisa Molesworth
, Charlotte Yonge
, Frances Hodgson Burnett
, Juliana Ewing
, Annie Fellows-Johnston
, and one anonymous author. Ewing, Juliana Horatia, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Charlotte Yonge, Annie Fellows-Johnston, and Frances Hodgson Burnett. Victorian Tales for Girls. Laski, MarghanitaEditor , Pilot Press, 1947. prelims |
Textual Production | Marghanita Laski | ML
dedicated to Mary Lascelles
(who had taught her at Somerville College
) her bio- critical work on three Victorian writers for children: Mrs. Ewing
, Mrs. Molesworth
, and Mrs. Hodgson Burnett. Laski, Marghanita. Mrs. Ewing, Mrs. Molesworth, and Mrs. Hodgson Burnett. A. Barker, 1950. prelims Maxwell, Mrs. “Ladies of Quality”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2528, p. 438. 438 |
Textual Production | L. T. Meade | She gave up her editorship only when other writing commitments and her growing children made it impossible to continue. During those six years she used to eat breakfast at half past seven, receive her first... |