Her subjects included German and French, philosophy and literature, particularly such writers as Kant
, Heine
, Pascal
, Racine
, and Voltaire
. Among English authors, she admired George Meredith
(Modern Love))...
Education
Anna Swanwick
At home her mother had read to her daughters, while they sewed, Greek and Roman history, and writers like Pope
, and Cowper
. At four Anna could recite long passages from Milton
's L'Allegro...