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| Education | Anna Seward | Anna's education was largely overseen by her parents. Before she was three she could recite passages from Milton
's L'Allegro and by nine the first three books of Paradise Lost. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 8 She was later... |
| Education | Anne Carson | Following her passion for classics, AC
enrolled in St Michael's College at the University of Toronto
in 1968. However, for the first few years of her undergraduate degree she was not contented with her studies... |
| Education | Edna St Vincent Millay | Three years after her highschool graduation, doors suddenly opened for ESVM
to go to college, although her preparation had not reached the standard generally demanded. Donors offered to support her at Vassar College
(through Caroline B. Dow |
| 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... |
| Dedications | Hannah Cowley | One early performance drew bigger crowds than Drury Lane, although the rival theatre that night featured Sarah Siddons
on stage and the king and queen in the audience. More Ways Than One was published on... |
| Cultural formation | Ephelia | If this was Ephelia, she grew up in an extremely wealthy, noble family and an incomparably privileged environment, with King James I
her honorary grandfather as well as her godfather, and with fine literature produced... |
| Cultural formation | Frances Arabella Rowden | FAR
came from the English middle class. She was an Anglican
in religion. Mary Russell Mitford
represents her as a young teacher taking a relaxed attitude to religious ideas in literary contexts (her students were... |
| Cultural formation | Lucy Hutton | She was born into the English professional class: its upper ranks, if the motto on her published title-page is a family one. As befitting her marriage to a clergyman, she was a strong member of... |
| Birth | Anne Grant | As a girl she wished for a little sister whom she could teach to enjoy Milton
. Grant, Anne. Memoirs of an American Lady. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808, 2 vols. 2: 153 |
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