William Cowper

MTL was educated in France at an Ursuline convent school. She later undertook further study in Italy. She consequently became familiar with both French and Italian. From her writings it is clear...

She could read by four-and-a-half, and recalls an early admiration for hymns by Anna Letitia Barbauld and Maria Edgeworth . Julius Cæsar, the first Shakespearean play that she saw, left a lasting impression. Later...

At a very early age Emma Martin could recite See'st thou my home is where yon woods are waving by Felicia Hemans . After leaving school she continued to study music with Dr Zacariah or Zechariah Buck

Sarah Josepha Buell (later SJH ) was taught at home by her mother, with her father and her brother Horatio (then a law student) joining in for such higher branches of learning as writing, Latin...

JI was educated at home by her mother and an unmarried aunt . She was occasionally instructed by the masters employed to teach the boys of the family. Her mother's curriculum centred on religion but...

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...

It carried a dedication, dated 10 May, to Cowper , who had read and revised a draft.