Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From an Island: A Story and Some Essays. B. Tauchnitz.
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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. prelims |
Education | Denise Levertov | DL
never went to school, but was educated at home by her mother up to the age of twelve. She then began ballet lessons (for which she had a passion, but which caused her to... |
Education | Florence Dixie | Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary... |
Education | Elinor Glyn | As a girl, the future EG
loved to hear Tennyson
's poetry, especially the Idylls of the King (published from 1859), many of which she learned by heart. She also adored George MacDonald
's The... |
Education | Jean Ingelow | In later years she expanded her reading to include Shakespeare
, Southey
, Scott
, Wordsworth
, and Tennyson
. She also read Henry Drummond
's Natural Law in the Spiritual World and hisTropical Africa and Charles Lamb
's Letters. Some Recollections of Jean Ingelow and Her Early Friends. Kennikat Press. 150-1 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Peters, Maureen. Jean Ingelow: Victorian Poetess. Boydell. 23 |
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 | 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. 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. 71 |
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. Charles, Elizabeth. Our Seven Homes. Editor Davidson, Mary, John Murray. 52-4 |
Education | Pauline Johnson |