Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From an Island: A Story and Some Essays. B. Tauchnitz, 1877.
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Anthologization | Felicia Hemans | |
Cultural formation | Hannah Cullwick | To all eyes she lived as Munby's servant; she often still slept in the basement kitchen. In the evenings, however, she played the role of a lady wife, sitting with Munby in the parlour, conversing... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
Dedications | Emily Faithfull | The most important publication of the Victoria Press
to the history of women's printing and publishing is undoubtedly The Victoria Regia (1861). This literary gift book, edited by Adelaide Procter
and dedicated by permission to... |
Dedications | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | The volume is dedicated to Tennyson
and his wife Emily
. Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From an Island: A Story and Some Essays. B. Tauchnitz, 1877. prelims |
Education | Blanche Warre Cornish | Blanche and her family made a cult of Tennyson
, whom they visited at his home. MacCarthy, Mary. A Nineteenth-Century Childhood. Constable, 1985. 17-18 |
Education | Penelope Lively | Initially learning at home, Penelope became well versed in the Authorised Version, tales of Greece and Rome, The Arabian Nights and not much else. Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Grove Press, 2001. 71 |
Education | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it... |
Education | Adrienne Rich | The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family... |
Education | Elizabeth Charles | EC
was educated by governesses and tutors at home. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908. Charles, Elizabeth. Our Seven Homes. Davidson, MaryEditor , John Murray, 1896. 52-4 |
Education | Carola Oman | CO
badly wanted to go to boarding-school, and Cheltenham Ladies' College
was suggested, but her mother decided against it. Carola later felt that this had been a good thing, since the emphasis on sport (which... |
Education | Pauline Johnson | |
Education | Ruth Padel | She found school work (at Byron House school in Highgate and then at the highly academic North London Collegiate
) difficult. She always got an A for English essays, although she would write a short... |
Education | Emily Hickey | She demonstrated an early interest in reading. Scott
, Tennyson
, and Barrett Browning
numbered among her early favourites. Her father, however, did not allow her to read Shakespeare
, as he was repelled by... |
Education | Dorothy Wellesley | She also furthered her own education by early-morning visits to the library, sometimes permitted though sometimes stopped, during which she read everything I could lay hands on, including Tennyson
, Matthew Arnold
, Swift
's... |