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.
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.
Friends, Associates
Jane Porter
The Porters' mother lived a busy social life on limited means, and JP
kept up this tradition. Sir Walter Scott
was an early friend.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
265
When she moved to London, JP
included among her friends...
Occupation
Jane Porter
JP
discovered in Russia some unpublished letters of Mary Queen of Scots
, which she transcribed, and sent to her friends Agnes
and Elizabeth Strickland
for their edition.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
112-13
Intertextuality and Influence
Jean Plaidy
The following eighty or so novels that she wrote under this pseudonym garnered her a wide following. Even before becoming Jean Plaidy she had studied the business aspect of authorship and had learned that whatever...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Susanna Moodie
Among SM
's five sisters, four became writers: Eliza or Elizabeth Strickland
, Agnes Strickland
(whose Lives of the Queens of England and other books were co-written with Elizabeth but bore her name alone), Jane Strickland
Instructor
Susanna Moodie
SM
's two elder sisters were well educated but the family could not afford a similar privilege for Catharine and Susanna, who were educated by their father
and the elder sisters, Agnes
and Elizabeth
....
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
1: 103
Its reception by others was predictably mixed. In the Unitarian Prospective Review, John James Tayler
praised its descriptive eloquence, noted the strong censure...
Friends, Associates
Eliza Lynn Linton
Eliza Lynn met a number of women authors who were once applauded but later complacently forgotten . . . . as literary fossils.
Linton, Eliza Lynn, and Beatrice Harraden. My Literary Life. Hodder and Stoughton.
85
She contended that Women who wrote were then few and far...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Howitt
In 1851 MH
edited an illustrated volume of Biographical Sketches of the Queens of Great Britain from the Norman Conquest to The Reign of Victoria; or, Royal Book of Beauty; this followed in the...
Education
Elinor Glyn
Since she abhorred her governesses, Elinor took her education into her own hands, reading every book she could in the library: Pepys
's diary, Cervantes
' Don Quixote (an eighteenth-century French version), Scott
, Agnes
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...
