Raverat, Gwen. Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood. Faber and Faber.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Hunt | VH
's mother was the writer Margaret (Raine) Hunt
, born on 14 October 1831. Her childhood home, Crook Hall in County Durham, was visited by Dorothy
and William Wordsworth
, John Ruskin
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Cornford | Frances's mother, Ellen Darwin
, a great-niece of the poet Wordsworth
, was a Fellow and lecturer in English literature at Newnham College
. Raverat, Gwen. Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood. Faber and Faber. 192 Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xxvii - xxxvii. xxvii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Wordsworth | Dorothy's brothers were, in order of age, Richard
, William
, John
, and Christopher
. Richard became a lawyer, John a naval officer (who died when the ship he commanded ran aground and sank... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Wordsworth | From early childhood Dorothy had been especially close to her brother William
. When in 1794 she was at last able to live with him, the reunion was emotional and they both felt that their... |
Education | Rudyard Kipling | Even during the years of the detested Southsea school RK
was developing an appreciation for literature. He writes of being surprised when reading (something Mrs Holloway
forced him to do under threat of punishment) turned... |
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... |
Education | John Ruskin | |
Education | Una Marson | UM
's favourite subject was English literature. She particularly loved Wordsworth
, who inspired her to resolve not . . . to be a good wage earner, but enjoy plain living and high thinking and... |
Education | Freya Stark | Family friends sympathetic to Freya's feelings of entrapment at Dronero sent her gifts of books: she was especially passionate about Shakespeare
, Sir Walter Scott
, Byron
, Keats
, Kipling
, Shelley
, Wordsworth |
Education | Nina Bawden | NB
wanted to leave school to be a war correspondent, but a strong-minded aunt persuaded her to try for Somerville College, Oxford. In the general paper of the entrance exam, she wrote on the future... |
Education | Anna Mary Howitt | Until her mid-teens, AMH
moved freely in the literary atmosphere surrounding her parents. William Wordsworth
gave her a copy of a selection of his poems that had been chosen for children. When her parents brought... |
Education | Anna Swanwick | |
Education | Meiling Jin | She was saved by the public Children's Library. She read omnivorously, beginning with the Dr Doolittle books (Hugh Lofting
) and fairy stories but missing out on Enid Blyton
(who was kept locked away)... |
Education | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | |
Education | Jean Ingelow | In later years she expanded her reading to include Shakespeare
, Southey
, Scott
, Wordsworth
, and Tennyson
. She also read Henry Drummond
's Natural Law in the Spiritual World and hisTropical Africa and Charles Lamb
's Letters. Some Recollections of Jean Ingelow and Her Early Friends. Kennikat Press. 150-1 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Peters, Maureen. Jean Ingelow: Victorian Poetess. Boydell. 23 |
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