Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Fanny Kingsley
FK
's biography remained the primary source on the life of Charles Kingsley through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; all subsequent biographies have relied on it to varying degrees. The first twentieth-century biography, Charles Kingsley...
Friends, Associates
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Her literary friends of a generation before her own included George Meredith
, Rhoda Broughton
, and Henry James
. She participated in the friendship of the two last-named by being regularly at Broughton's house...
Leisure and Society
Agnes Strickland
AS
in time became something of a social celebrity as a result of various factors: the popularity of her published works, their royal and romantic subject-matter, and the reclusiveness of her elder sister, who left...
Textual Production
Agnes Strickland
Even before settling in London, AS
began her professional authorial career with tales for children, many published in The Parting Gift, of which she was at that time the editor.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
22
She published...
Textual Production
Agnes Strickland
She had first sighted Princess Victoria in 1836, had attended her Coronation, and was full of romantic feelings about her.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
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When the queen became engaged Henry Colburn
, too, was eager to (in Una Pope-Hennessy
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Texts
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Canon Charles Kingsley: A Bibliography. Chatto and Windus, 1948.