Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Harriette Wilson | While she was still in her teens, although engaged in her second paid sexual relationship, her lover Frederic Lamb
set out to get her reading Milton
, Shakespeare
, Byron
, theRambler, Virgil |
Education | Maria Theresa Longworth | MTL
was educated in France at an Ursuline convent school. Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press. 137 Erickson, Arvel B., and John R. McCarthy. “The Yelverton Case: Civil Legislation and Marriage”. Victorian Studies, Vol. 14 , pp. 275-91. 275 |
Education | Beatrix Potter | Beatrix, educated at home and six years older than her brother, was a solitary child. She had few toys; but she became deeply interested in science, and was also, from an early age, devoted to... |
Education | Sarah Kane | At school, SK
directed plays by Shakespeare
, as well as Joan Littlewood
's musical Oh, What a Lovely War. She took a BA degree in drama at Bristol University
(first class honours), and... |
Education | Dora Greenwell | Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke. 73 |
Education | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
's early immersion in fairy stories and popular tales was followed by a more ambitious course of reading that began around the age of seven with history, classical poetry, and some of Shakespeare
's... |
Education | Melesina Trench | After the deaths of her parents Melesina Chenevix was committed to the care of a governess who had a determination to rule by rigour. . . . The fear and distaste I had for her... |
Education | Hélène Cixous | She had already begun courses to prepare for university entrance at the Lycée Bugeaud in Algiers a year earlier. In 1957 she earned her bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Bordeaux
... |
Education | Germaine Greer | GG
's PhD thesis, The Ethic of Love and Marriage in Shakespeare
's Early Comedies, was officially approved by Cambridge University
. Wallace, Christine. Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew. Richard Cohen Books. 117n22 |
Education | Nina Hamnett | Back in Tenby, her father and grandmother sent her to a stricter school, a high-class Academy for young Ladies at Westgate-on-Sea. Hamnett, Nina. Laughing Torso. Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc. 7 |
Education | Melesina Trench | Her successive years with different guardians account for the apparent inconsistency in her comments about her education. In maturity she named her favourite youthful reading as Shakespeare
, Molière
, and Sterne
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Hilary Mantel | HM
had discovered Shakespeare
at ten years old, and since nobody told her he was difficult she found him a pure pleasure to read. In summer 1968, aged sixteen, she spent three days in Stratford... |
Education | Anne Ridler | She lived in a King's College hostel in Queensborough Terrace near Hyde Park,London. The course included lectures on history and literature. The distinguished scholar Jack Isaacs
lectured on Shakespeare
, Donne
, and Milton |
Education | Margaret Fuller | MF
's father established a rigorous and structured education for her that began at age three-and-a-half. She was given daily lessons in Latin grammar, mathematics, history, and classics. This course of study later included French... |
Education | Jean Middlemass |
Timeline
1978: Melissa Murray's play Belisha Beacon was...
Women writers item
1978
Melissa Murray
's playBelisha Beacon was produced and performed by the Pirate Jenny
theatre group, in the same year as two more plays by her, one solo and one collaborative.
27 January 1979: A one-day strike by 1.5 million British public...
National or international item
27 January 1979
A one-day strike by 1.5 million British public sector workers ushered in a series of selective strikes which gave rise to the Shakespearean
phrase winter of discontent.
23 April 1993: The new Globe Theatre on London's South Bank...
Building item
23 April 1993
The new Globe Theatre
on London's South Bank (masterminded by Sam Wanamaker
and designed as a modified replica of Shakespeare
's theatre), although still a building site, put on its first production.
13 July 2006: A rare book sale at Sotheby's brought under...
Writing climate item
13 July 2006
A rare book sale at Sotheby's
brought under the hammer both a First Folio of the works of Shakespeare
and a copy of the first edition of Woolf
's Orlando inscribed to Vita Sackville-West
.
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