Thomas Moore

At the age of fifteen she ceased regular study, and began reading on her own. She spent much of the time at Friends ' meetings going over passages from Byron , Southey , Moore ...

SG learned to read fairly late, but then read voraciously. The glowing Eastern landscapes and brilliant figures of Disraeli 's Alroy and Thomas Moore 's Lalla Rookh made a particular impression. She also developed...

AG and her sisters received little formal education; their lessons took second place to their brothers'. Under her evangelical mother's strict supervision, they were taught by a succession of governesses and tutors, who...

Little is known of CM 's education. Scholar Michael Galchinsky (who later wrote of her for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) describes her family's household as secularizing . . . for their father...

She had been working on these translations for some years. This handsome work was (in the words of the old Dictionary of National Biography) enriched with curious illustrations laboriously executed by hand, by...

His body was brought back to England (contrary to his expressed wishes), where dissension arose over his funeral. His sister wanted it to be private and aristocratic, while public opinion (though not the establishment) wanted...