Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Elizabeth Strickland
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Standard Name: Strickland, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Strickland
Used Form: Eliza Strickland
ES
published her earliest children's book under her name, though her periodical editing was anonymous. But although a number of women writers in various generations have chosen anonymity or obscurity, she is extraordinary in seeking to remain hidden when volumes of hers were appearing to great acclaim with her younger sister's name on them. She was content to work in collaboration with Agnes
on these works of historical biography, scholarship, and editing, and to see the credit going entirely to Agnes. Even in the early twenty-first century the British Library
Catalogue did not list most of her collaborative works under her name.
Agnes
and Elizabeth Strickland
, in Lives of the Bachelor Kings of England (bearing, as usual, only Agnes's name), turned to a royal group whom their researches had not yet touched.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
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Textual Production
Agnes Strickland
Agnes
and Elizabeth Strickland
(the latter, as usual, not credited on the title page) turned to a more esoteric subject in their The Lives of the Seven Bishops Committed to the Tower in 1688...
Textual Production
Agnes Strickland
Agnes
and Elizabeth Strickland
published the last of their unacknowledged collaborations, Lives of the Tudor Princesses, in Agnes's name only.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Textual Production
Agnes Strickland
AS
published Lives of the Last Four Princesses of the Royal House of Stuart, this time without her sister
's participation.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Author summary
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Agnes Strickland
All but one of AS
's five sisters became writers when they grew up. Elizabeth
(1794-1875) became Agnes's collaborator or silent partner. Jane
wrote children's stories. Catharine
and Susanna
both emigrated with their husbands to...
Travel
Agnes Strickland
In the summer of 1850 AS
was in Scotland, not doing research but hunting royal relics. In fact, once Blackwell
became her publisher, she made frequent visits to Edinburgh. She made her own...
Residence
Agnes Strickland
After their father's death the eldest Strickland sister, Elizabeth
, moved from Reydon Hall to London; Agnes
followed her by degrees, by visits at first.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
21-2
Education
Agnes Strickland
Elizabeth
and AS
were studying history and palaeography (early handwriting) in the British Museum
.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Travel
Agnes Strickland
Elizabeth
and AS
crossed from Southampton to Le Havre on the first leg of a Continental research trip.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
126
death
Agnes Strickland
AS
died some time after suffering a fall and a stroke; her sister Elizabeth
survived until the following year.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
310
Publishing
Agnes Strickland
The most famous of AS
's works appeared in twelve successive volumes: Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest, co-written with her sister Elizabeth
but bearing her name alone. The first...
Material Conditions of Writing
Agnes Strickland
Elizabeth
and AS
's historical studies in the British Museum
produced an edition of the Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, to which they were able to bring much unpublished material.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
785 (12 November 1842): 966-9
Textual Production
Catharine Parr Traill
Catharine Strickland, later CPT
, published another book of didactic stories for children: Reformation; or, The Cousins.
The Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume 99, attributes to her Disobedience; or, Mind What Mamma Says...
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...
