Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Frances Arabella Rowden
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Standard Name: Rowden, Frances Arabella
Married Name: St Quintin
Used Form: St Quentin
FAR
, a schoolteacher by profession in the early nineteenth century, published mostly with instruction in mind. She began with a textbook on botany (designed to sanitize that topic after the work of Erasmus Darwin
had made it controversial for females) which included inset poems. After another poem, she reverted to prose for books of religious tone on pagan mythology and the classics of European literature.
AMH
's step-grandfather paid for her education. It is possible that she attended boarding school while living in England and it is said that she was at Hans Place School
, run by Frances Arabella Rowden
.
Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe.
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Textual Production
Joan Aiken
Next year came The Smile of the Stranger, a historical romance whose English heroine experiences not only the French Revolution (since she has been living with her father in France) but other markers...