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Education | Anna Swanwick | |
Education | Anne Grant | Of her childhood, AG
wrote that she developed early powers of imagination and memory, but received little attention: no one fondled or caressed me . . . I did not till the sixth year of... |
Education | Frances Power Cobbe | In 1841 FPC
began to educate herself. She studied history, read much of the classics (including all of Milton
's poetry), and worked at astronomy and architecture. Cobbe, Frances Power. Life of Frances Power Cobbe. Houghton, Mifflin. 1: 61-3 |
Education | Ruth Fainlight | |
Education | Maria Theresa Kemble | In later life she said she could never enjoy reading Milton
because to her Paradise Lost was a lesson-book for learning English from. Kemble, Fanny. Records of a Girlhood. Henry Holt. 96 |
Education | Anna Swanwick | Poetry was always important to her. She said that Dante
's Paradiso had changed her life. Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 123-4 Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 124 |
Education | Anne Brontë | Their later reading drew on a selection of standard texts including Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England, Hannah More
's Moral Sketches, John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress, Isaac Watts
's Doctrine of... |
Education | Catherine Cookson | The house had no books and when a lodger brought in Shakespeare, Milton
, and Donne
, they were pronounced unsuitable for a child. CC
did read a Shakespeare
sonnet at about this age and... |
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. 8 She was later... |
Education | Joanna Baillie | From the age of ten she went to a boarding school in Glasgow which specialised in transforming healthy little hoydens into perfect little ladies. Witchcraft by Joanna Baillie. Finborough Theatre. |
Education | Charlotte Brontë | Their education continued at home from a selection of standard texts including Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England, Hannah More
's Moral Sketches, John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress, Isaac Watts
's Doctrine... |
Education | Elizabeth Taylor | Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books. 12-13 |
Education | Emily Brontë | Thereafter, Patrick Brontë
educated his remaining children at home, using standard educational texts including Thomas Salmon
's A New Geographical and Historical Grammar, a condensed version of Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England,... |
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 | Florence Dixie | Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary... |
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