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Education | Elinor Glyn | After Elinor Sutherland (later EG
) turned fourteen she no longer had a governess. Eager for intellectual stimulation, she took it upon herself to read everything in her stepfather
's book collection, which had recently... |
Education | Maria Riddell | The future MR
was in all probability privately educated. At sixteen she wrote a poem to commemorate the pleasure of reading with a friend the works of Milton
, Pope
, Spenser
, Shakespeare
... |
Education | Sarah Orne Jewett | She read extensively as a child, and came early to authors as diverse as Jane Austen
, George Eliot
, Margaret Oliphant
, Henry Fielding
, Laurence Sterne
, Elizabeth Gaskell
and Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Education | Sara Jeannette Duncan | Writing by SJD
suggests that some of her early reading included Sterne
and Defoe
. She also had access to Blackwood's and the Cornhill Magazine, and romantic novels by Mary Cecil Hay
and Mary Jane Holmes
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Education | Melesina Trench | Her successive years with different guardians account for the apparent inconsistency in her comments about her education. In maturity she named her favourite youthful reading as Shakespeare
, Molière
, and Sterne
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Strutt | The paintings he exhibited at the Royal Academy
were mostly landscapes; it may not be fanciful to see the influence of his marriage in the two titles he showed (for the first time) in 1819:... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Mary Walker | Foscolo read Petrarch
and Sterne
together with Hamilton's daughter Sophia. Then he seduced her, and went back to Italy leaving her pregnant. The baby was called Mary after her grandmother, and stayed with Lady Mary... |
Fictionalization | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | EKM
's representation by her husband's second wife as a pathetic victim, idealistic but foolish and untalented, paved the way for Virginia Woolf
's portrait. Woolf seized on details given by Anne Mathews: the best... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson | EGF
had met novelist Laurence Sterne
and botanist-physician John Fothergill
in London. Among her large circle of friends at home, other writers were prominent. She knew the poet Nathaniel Evans
and the physician and educator... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phebe Gibbes | In addition to its over-riding themes of colonialism and the marriage market, this novel, set in early British Calcutta (and incorporating a good deal of travel book material), is much concerned with literature and with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Willa Muir | WM
heads her essay with a quotation from Laurence Sterne
's Tristram Shandy: Methinks, brother, replied my father, you might, at least, know so much as the right end of a woman from the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | A. Woodfin | Mrs Dubois makes a second marriage to a widower, Mr Ravenshaw. Something in their Minds attracted them to each other. They thought it was Friendship, and called it so; but their Friends termed it Love... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances O'Neill | The volume includes poems of natural description, of meditation, and of political comment. FON
expresses delight at the election victory on 9 August 1802 (in John Wilkes's old constituency of Middlesex) of Sir Francis Burdett |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Haswell Rowson | Here SHR
makes a preface out of her unwillingness to write a preface: this concept is Sterne
an, and so is the abrupt opening. I can't for my life see the necessity of it, said... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Beeton | The chapter on Domestic Servants opens by noting archly the conviction that the race of good servants has died out, at least in England, although they do order these things better in France Beeton, Isabella. Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management. Editor Humble, Nicola, Oxford University Press. 392 The... |