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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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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.
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.
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Textual Features
George Eliot
The white neck-cloth species, exemplified by Caroline Scott
's The Old Grey Church, is both upper-class and fervently Evangelical in setting: a kind of genteel tract on a large scale, intended as a sort...
Textual Production
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
In...
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.
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...
Textual Production
Antonia Fraser
In Boadicea's Chariot: The Warrior Queens, AF
engaged with modern gender analysis while also catering to the taste for books about woman rulers (a taste which has lasted from Agnes
and Elizabeth Strickland
to...
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.
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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...
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.
