| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater | The wedding was sumptuous and the bride's marriage portion was £6,000. Travitsky, Betty, and Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater. “Subordination and Authorship: Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton”. Subordination and Authorship: the case of Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton and her &quot:loose papers", Tempe, Ariz., pp. 1-172. 92 Starr, Nathan Comfort. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Concealed Fansyes</span>: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley”. PMLA, Vol. 46 , No. 3, pp. 805-36. 804 Travitsky, Betty, and Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater. “Subordination and Authorship: Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton”. Subordination and Authorship: the case of Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton and her &quot:loose papers", Tempe, Ariz., pp. 1-172. 72 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Katherine Philips | KP
's maternal grandfather, Daniel Oxenbridge
, was a physician with an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Her uncle John Oxenbridge was a friend of Milton
and Marvell
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Daniel Oxenbridge Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Hatton | Siddons was also an author: she published The Story of Our First Parents, Selected from Paradise Lost: For the Use of Young Persons, 1822 (to make Milton
accessible for her children), and left unpublished... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Hester Pulter | Hester's father, James Ley
, was a lawyer (in time a judge) who sat for many years as Member of Parliament for Westbury (under Queen Elizabeth, James I and Charles I). At the time of... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Hester Pulter | LHP
's elder sister Margaret (later, by marriage, Margaret Hobson
) had the distinction of being the recipient or dedicatee of Milton
's sonnet in praise of her father. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Eliza Bleecker | Margaretta married, against her father's wishes, a French Jacobin doctor; the marriage turned out unhappy. Besides her posthumous edition of her mother's works, she published a blank-verse tragedy, Belisarius, and poems including one on... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Steele | Nor was this AS
's only opportunity to marry. In 1742 she was approached with an ardent love-letter (likening her to Milton
's Eve as she first strikes love into the heart of Adam) by... |
| Education | Maria Riddell | The future MR
was in all probability privately educated. At sixteen she wrote a poem to commemorate the pleasure of reading with a friend the works of Milton
, Pope
, Spenser
, Shakespeare
... |
| Education | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Sheila was educated at Hastings, at St Leonard's Ladies' College (almost next-door to her home), from 1896 to 1905. Like many large private schools of the time, this one educated its pupils to eighteen... |
| Education | Janet Hamilton | She attributed her power of language and ability for composition to reading the works of good authors, Hamilton, Janet. Poems, Essays, and Sketches. James Maclehose. viii |
| 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 | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | As a girl, Mary Eleanor Bowes received an excellent education and could speak several languages, reading French and Italian authors in the original. It was said that she did not learn Latin, but also that... |
| Education | Anne Marsh | At probably four years old AM
read Anna Letitia Barbauld
's Lessons for Children (a composite title for her various books for the very young). With her reader Anne Caldwell, Barbauld achieved her aim of... |
| Education | Lydia Maria Child | At fifteen she read Paradise Lost (with her brother's encouragement) and was delighted with its grandeur and sublimity, but was bold enough to criticise Milton
for assert[ing] the superiority of his own sex in rather... |
| Education | Elizabeth Inchbald |
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