Agnes Strickland
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Standard Name: Strickland, Agnes
Birth Name: Agnes Strickland
AS
, writing in the middle nineteenth century, won renown as a historian and biographer, particularly of the British royal family and particularly of its female members. In fact all of these books were co-authored by her sister Elizabeth
, who, however, preferred that their books should appear in Agnes's name alone. AS
also wrote poetry, songs, children's books, and novels.
Works by other Strickland sisters, notably Catharine Parr Traill
, are frequently misattributed to AS
by library catalogues.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Lucy Toulmin Smith | As an anonymous writer for the Times rather oddly phrased it in an obituary, LTS
's services to English scholarship and literature were altogether out of proportion to her notoriety. “Miss Lucy Toulmin Smith”. Times, No. 39774, p. 11. 39774 (1911):11 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | In London, she met theCarlyles
and John Gibson Lockhart
's daughter Charlotte
. She was also introduced to her future husband, Charles Eastlake
. She called on Agnes Strickland
and Maria Edgeworth
. Lord Shaftesbury |
Occupation | Jane Porter | JP
discovered in Russia some unpublished letters of Mary Queen of Scots
, which she transcribed, and sent to her friends Agnes
and Elizabeth Strickland
for their edition. Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus. 112-13 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Porter | The Porters' mother lived a busy social life on limited means, and JP
kept up this tradition. Sir Walter Scott
was an early friend. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 265 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jean Plaidy | The following eighty or so novels that she wrote under this pseudonym garnered her a wide following. Even before becoming Jean Plaidy she had studied the business aspect of authorship and had learned that whatever... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Winifred Peck | Her chapter-headings quote from Agnes Strickland
and Edith Sitwell
as well as an eclectic range of male authors from Homer
onwards. Quotations abound in the text as well as the epigraphs, and not all of... |
Dedications | Susanna Moodie | Susanna Moodie
published her personal narrative Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada, dedicated to her sister Agnes Strickland
, Author of the Lives of the Queens of England. Moodie, Susanna, and Susan Glickman. Roughing It in the Bush. McClelland and Stewart. v |
Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Moodie | Among SM
's five sisters, four became writers: Eliza or Elizabeth Strickland
, Agnes Strickland
(whose Lives of the Queens of England and other books were co-written with Elizabeth but bore her name alone), Jane Strickland |
Instructor | Susanna Moodie | |
Textual Production | Susanna Moodie | In 1830 SM
and her sister Agnes Strickland
published Patriotic Songs, a pamphlet of poems. Moodie, Susanna et al. Patriotic Songs, 1830. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/moodie-traill/027013-5007-e.html. prelims Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press. 43-4 |
Textual Production | Susanna Moodie | SM
imagined bringing the benefits of literature to an audience of yeomen and mechanics, Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking. 198 |
Literary responses | Susanna Moodie | Her family in England was horrified, seeing in this book the complete collapse of family respectability. Her sister Sarah wrote to Moodie's daughter: You cannot imagine how vexed and mortified my dear sister Agnes
was... |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | HM
liked this the best of all her works. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 1: 103 |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | Eliza Lynn met a number of women authors who were once applauded but later complacently forgotten . . . . as literary fossils. Linton, Eliza Lynn, and Beatrice Harraden. My Literary Life. Hodder and Stoughton. 85 |
Textual Production | Catherine Hutton | It seems probable that this project was sparked by Mary Hays
's biographical dictionary of women, Memoirs of Queens, Illustrious and Celebrated, which was published, incomplete, in summer 1821. It was still at least... |
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