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Education | Christian Milne | So keen was the child on her school-learned skills that she kept a piece of broken slate Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Letters from the North Highlands, During the Summer 1816. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 58 |
Education | Tabitha Tenney | Whether or not TT
's education was Puritanical (most sources about her life have no higher status than gossip) she was well read in the emergent canon of English literature, from Shakespeare
and Milton
through... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Annie Keary | One of these night-school students later emigrated to work for a business firm in the USA. Keary, Annie. Letters of Annie Keary. Editor Keary, Eliza, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 7 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Grant | The most important friends of the young Anne MacVicar were Catalina Schuyler
(whom she calls Madame, and with whom her first bond was a shared love of Milton
) and the little girl Catalina... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria De Fleury | Her poem is Miltonic
in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF
opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The title piece, A Drama of Exile, is the most ambitious. It visualises the consequences of the biblical Fall from paradise, since, as EBB
writes in the preface (where she casts herself, too, as... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christian Gray | Milton
was clearly an inspiration to Gray because of his blindness: this shows a fair level of self-confidence in her. The author's name appears with the description blind from her infancy, which emphasises the charitable... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Helme | The title-page quotes Milton
's Paradise Lost on conscience as the guide within. Helme, Elizabeth. Clara and Emmeline. G. Kearsley. title-page |
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