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.
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...
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
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
Publishing
Agnes Strickland
AS
followed her lives of English queens with Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain (again with her sister Elizabeth
as invisible collaborator).
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
210
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
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.
265
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.
Timeline
By 2 August 1856: Jane Margaret Strickland published a novel,...
Women writers item
By 2 August 1856
Jane Margaret Strickland
published a novel, Adonijah, a tale of the Jewish Dispersion; it was shortly attacked by George Eliot
in Silly Novels by Lady Novelists as one of the deplorable types of fiction...
Texts
Strickland, Elizabeth. Disobedience; or, Mind What Mamma Says. James Woodhouse, 1819.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland, editors. Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots. H. Colburn, 1842.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland. Lives of the Bachelor Kings of England. Simpkin, Marshall, 1861.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. H. Colburn, 1840.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. G. Barrie, 1902.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland. Lives of the Queens of Scotland. W. Blackwood, 1859.
Strickland, Agnes. Lives of the Tudor Princesses. Editor Strickland, Elizabeth, Longman’s, Green, 1868.
Strickland, Agnes et al. Prejudice Reproved; or, The History of the Negro Toy-Seller. Harvey and Darton, 1826.
Moodie, Susanna, and Elizabeth Strickland. The Little Prisoner; or, Passion and Patience; and, Amendment; or, Charles Grant and his Sister. Dean and Munday, 1828.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland. The Lives of the Seven Bishops Committed to the Tower in 1688. Bell and Daldy, 1866.
