John Foxe

MC writes, No Learning ever was bestow'd on me; / My Life was always spent in Drudgery. But she learned to read very early, and continued learning into adult life. She later listed her...

MBF mentions her early reading (or looking at the pictures in) Foxe 's Book of Martyrs. The strongest influence on her during her teens was Mrs Lefevre , a Methodist, whose letters were posthumously...

One of the earliest books that Marie could remember was Pierre et Pierrette, a celebrated little text written by her grandmother Belloc to improve the education of French village children. She grew up conscious...

Lady Sharington employed a governess named Hamblyn for her daughters, who was a niece of her husband. Mrs Hamblyn took great pains with the character and moral training of her charges, and taught Grace some...

Lucy spent most of her childhood with her siblings, cared for by a nurse, under-nurse and governess in the third-floor nursery. Their Sunday play consisted of reading the New Testament, Bunyan (Pilgrim's...

She wrote original poetry all her life, though individual pieces are hard to date. Bradner , editor of her poems, counts them as six certain and ten doubtful, besides six verse translations. Some of...