Maria Theresa Earle

CL made three great friends during her teenage years, all of whom belonged to or were connected with her family. The first was her music teacher, Fräulein Oser , and the others (with whom she...

While EL self-effacingly suggested that her horticultural representation of Ireland is a pleasurable childishness, critic Elizabeth Grubgeld argues that her representation of personal history and cultural heritage in her garden and her Garden Diary...

JL was quickly forgotten by the literary world, and memory of her practical work was submerged in that of her husband. A few writers on gardening continued to voice their admiration: William Robinson in 1869...

All her siblings having left home while she stayed with her mother, she had no expectation of ever leaving. As a daughter at home her duties included keeping household accounts and paying tradesmen's bills and...

The Anti-Suffrage Review had been launched in December 1808. CL later wrote that at this juncture in her process of conversion to the suffrage cause, she was much concerned with the arguments of Anti-Suffragists. With...

Most of the letters here are addressed to CL 's mother, her editor-sister, and two close friends who were also relations, her aunt Theresa Earle and her cousin Adela Smith . Hating the round...

CL , still in her teens, wrote to her aunt Theresa Earle a remarkable letter of self-analysis and self-explanation which Earle printed, anonymously, in her Memoirs and Memories, 1911.