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Education | Helen Waddell | She attended the Victoria School for Girls
in Belfast from 1900, then took a year of private study from 1907 to 1908 before going on to read English (with Latin and French) at Queen's University, Belfast |
Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |
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 | |
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 | 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 |
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