Woods, Susanne, and Aemilia Lanyer. “Introduction”. The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer, Oxford University Press, p. xv - li.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Aemilia Lanyer | At about eighteen AL
became mistress to Lord Chamberlain Hunsdon
(soldier, courtier, and patron of Shakespeare
's company), who was forty-five years her senior. In this capacity she lived richly. Woods, Susanne, and Aemilia Lanyer. “Introduction”. The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer, Oxford University Press, p. xv - li. xviii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | HMB
's elder brother, John, trained as a lawyer but won modest fame as a Church of England
writer. A memoir of him was published by one of his sons, another Thomas, in 1824. The... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Ann Kelty | Before she was fifteen MAK
fell in love with a young nobleman, an undergraduate who had been at school with her brother. His nodding civilly to her at a concert, Kelty, Mary Ann. The Solace of a Solitaire. Trübner and Co. 122 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth von Arnim | In a letter to Dorothy Brett
, Mansfield wrote: The point about [Elizabeth] is that one loves her and is proud of her. Oh, that's so important! To be proud of the person one loves... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Five years after Ivy came home from college, her mother's death left her, her brother Noel, and Martyn Mowll
as joint trustees and guardians of her four younger sisters: Vera
, Judy
, Topsy
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Batten Cristall | Her mother was born Elizabeth Batten
; she christened her daughter with her mother's first name and her own birth surname. She was the daughter of a merchant and the sister of a dissenting minister... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Walker | Her father, John Sadler
, was a well-to-do druggist and tobacconist who came from Stratford upon Avon. His grandfather was probably at school with Shakespeare
, and he himself was connected by marriage with... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Wentworth | AW
probably acquired that name at this date, when she married William Wentworth
, a Londoner who may have been (like Shakespeare
's father) in the glove trade. In 1676 she implied that she had... |
Family and Intimate relationships | John Strange Winter | One of JSW
's great-great-grandmothers (on her father's side) was Hannah Pritchard
, a celebrated actress and singer. Henrietta seems not to have known that this made her a great-niece of Alicia Tyndal Palmer
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Amelia B. Edwards
, cousin of MBE
, became known as a novelist, travel-writer, and Egyptologist. Miles, Alfred H. The Victorian Poets: The Bio-Critical Introductions to the Victorian Poets from A. H. Miles’s The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Editor Fredeman, William E., Garland. 385 Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 127 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Susan Hill | SH
married Shakespearean scholar Stanley Wells
on Shakespeare
's birthday at Stratford-on-Avon. Hill, Susan. Family. Michael Joseph. 32-3 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Michael Field | They took their vow after attending a wedding. Cooper, somewhat abashed at the proceedings, said they swore with the bright world 'round us, that we will remain Poets & Lovers whatever may happen to hinder... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Kamila Shamsie | Hosain remained in London, and eventually took up a job with the BBC
. During her time as a broadcaster, she presented her own women's programme for the BBC's Eastern Service, worked variously for the... |
Employer | Noel Streatfeild | After studying at RADA, NS
went on the stage, where she gained experience of everything from classic roles to revues and pantomime. Her first engagement was with the Charles DoranShakespeare
an Company
where she... |
Education | Jan Struther | JS
was educated privately in London, going to classes held in a private home. She hated history and geography but loved literature. Her teacher, Miss Moseley, took the children through Shakespeare
before she began... |
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