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Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle
was installed as Rector of Edinburgh University
. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell. 266 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Kingsley | When she met him, Kingsley was experiencing severe religious doubts. Fanny's influence in his religious development during his undergraduate years should not be underestimated. She encouraged him to read Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, Thomas Carlyle |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lucy Knox | Her father, the Hon. Stephen Edmond Spring Rice
, forged lifelong friendships with Alfred Tennyson
, Thomas Carlyle
, and Edward FitzGerald
during his years at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School
and Trinity College, Cambridge |
Family and Intimate relationships | Geraldine Jewsbury | After the publication of Zoe, a man known only in GJ
's letters as Q began corresponding with her. Other than that he was an acquaintance of the CarlyleJane Welsh Carlyle
s, the man's real identity... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Welsh Carlyle | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Geraldine Jewsbury | |
Education | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
's parents encouraged her intellectual development from an early age. Among the important first texts she read were Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress and John BunyanHoly War, and Carlyle
's French Revolution. Her mother... |
Education | Clara Codd | CC
never went to school; instead, she and her sisters were taught by a series of governesses who she never loved. Codd, Clara. So Rich a Life. Caxton Limited. 6 |
Education | Louisa May Alcott | She was also a great self-educator and took to reading everything from Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress to Hawthorne
's The Scarlet Letter (he was a family friend). She particularly admired Mary Wollstonecraft
and also warmed... |
Education | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | After Greystone House, Emmeline Pethick started attending a Quaker school in Weston-super-Mare, where her family had moved. She became a boarder at this school when she was twelve. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 57 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 | L. M. Montgomery | LMM
saved enough money to attend Dalhousie University
in Halifax, Nova Scotia. for one year, 1895-1896, where her studies included Milton
and Carlyle
. She wrote for the school newspaper and joined a literary... |
Education | Adrienne Rich | The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family... |
Education | Virginia Woolf | Between 1 January and 30 June 1897, her reading included but was not limited to the following: Charlotte Brontë
, Lady Barlow
(a commentator on Charles Darwin
), Dinah Mulock Craik
, George Eliot
,... |
Education | Flora Shaw | On her father's promotion in 1861, a move to the Commandant's house enabled the voracious young reader to take advantage of unlimited access to the library of the Royal Military Academy
, where she was... |
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