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Education | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | GHS
was educated at home by governesses of several nationalities: Mademoiselle Titsie
, Marie Girard
, Rose Frohnstein
, and the English M. L. J., on several of whom she lavished that warmth of temperament... |
Education | Harriet Shaw Weaver | HSW
's family encouraged her in the regular pursuits of a young, middle-class Victorian woman. From her father she inherited an enthusiasm for poetry—she especially liked Shakespeare
, Coleridge
, and Whitman
—and she read... |
Education | Anne Lister | As an adult she was frequently engaged in serious, self-improving study. Her reading included ancient classics (Demosthenes
, Sophocles
, Juvenal
) and modern writings on conduct (Henrietta Maria Bowdler
's Essay on... |
Education | Sarah Grand | SG
continued to teach herself throughout her life, mostly by reading on various subjects. Helen C. Black
writes that SG
particularly enjoyed non-fiction, such as natural history, physiology and other quasi-scientific subjects. Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge. 282 |
Education | Edna Lyall | Since the cousin with whom she shared lessons was three years older, Ada Ellen read a good many books at that time which must have been far beyond . . . [her] powers. At twelve... |
Education | Una Marson | For UM
and her sisters, reading poetry was the chief delight of our childhood days. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 11 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Matilda Hays | Through her involvement with the Langham Place Group, MH
met and became a friend of Adelaide Procter
. In 1858 Procter dedicated the First Series of Legends and Lyrics to Hays, using a quotation from... |
Friends, Associates | Coventry Patmore | CP
's early contacts included Alfred Tennyson
, Robert Browning
, Thomas Carlyle
, Ralph Waldo Emerson
, and John Ruskin
. Later in life, he knew Gerard Manley Hopkins
and Edmund Gosse
. Among... |
Friends, Associates | Sophia Jex-Blake | When SJB
landed she was introduced to her host, Ralph Waldo Emerson
. She arrived only a couple months after the American Civil War had ended, and there was a climate of hostility towards Britain... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Fuller | MF
's circle of friends and associates included many of the of the pre-eminent thinkers and writers of her day. She maintained a vision of friendship that demanded total loyalty and sought integrity, sensitivity, and... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Fuller | Her relationship with Emerson
(recorded in their letters) was close and complicated, and was important in the intellectual development of each. Capper, Charles. Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Oxford University Press. |
Friends, Associates | Eudora Welty | Although she lived most of her life out of the social swing, EW
maintained a web of close friendships by letters and visits. With Diarmuid Russell
, who became her literary agent in 1940, she... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | On their return from Edinburgh, Jane and Thomas Carlyle received an unexpected visit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
, who was on a literary tour and had been sent to them by John Stuart Mill
... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Leonowens | In 1872 AL
met John Paine
, a wealthy older man with an interest in literature and a fan of her writing. Through Paine she was introduced to the elite of the New York arts... |
Friends, Associates | Thomas Carlyle | He shared a wide and varied social circle with his wife
, as well as forging his own connections with Ralph Waldo Emerson
, John Ruskin
, Charles Kingsley
, and Alfred Tennyson
. |
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