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.
Photograph of a painting of Agnes Strickland by John Hayes, 1846. She is seated with her elbow resting on a wooden table. She is wearing a black velvet dress that laces at the front, over a cream coloured shirt that is trimmed with ruffles. Her sleeves are trimmed with cream coloured lace and pearls, and she is wearing a matching pearl bracelet. Her dark hair is curly, and partly pulled back. She holds a small paper scroll with early-period writing on it, and perhaps a seal. National Portrait Gallery.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Catharine Parr Traill
With or without sisterly collaboration, Catharine Strickland, later CPT , published a children's story as Prejudice Reproved; or, the History of the Negro Toy-Seller, as the author of The Telltale, Reformation, Disobedience, Early Lessons...
Textual Production Catharine Parr Traill
Catharine Strickland, later CPT , published another book for children: The Keepsake Guineas; or, The Best Use of Money, as by the author of The Juvenile Forget-me-not, Tell-Tale, Tales of the School, &c.
The...
Textual Production Catharine Parr Traill
CPT finished the manuscript for Canadian Crusoes and quickly sent it to England so that her sistersJane Margaret Strickland could find a publisher.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking.
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Author summary Catharine Parr Traill
CPT , sister of the writers Elizabeth and Agnes Strickland and Susanna Moodie , is best known for her naturalist writing about nineteenth-century Upper Canada. She was a letter-writer widely respected and eventually rewarded for...
Family and Intimate relationships Catharine Parr Traill
Her sisters included the writers Agnes Strickland , Elizabeth Strickland , and Susanna Moodie . She shared a particularly close bond with Susanna, her fellow emigrant.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking.
5, 212
Wealth and Poverty Catharine Parr Traill
CPT had never made much from writing, and though she had inherited some money after the deaths of family members, she unwisely invested in a firm that went bankrupt. At the age of ninety-five she...
Publishing Catharine Parr Traill
Agnes Strickland and her sister Jane edited letters that CPT had been sending back to England, and sent the manuscript to London publisher Charles Knight.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking.
115
Textual Features Catharine Parr Traill
Her sister Agnes Strickland moved slowly, so the book did not come out until 1852. The story, peppered with scientific lore on Canadian nature, features two children who are half-French and half-Scottish and a third...

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