Waldron, Mary, and Isobel Grundy. Letter about Mary Bryan to Isobel Grundy. 2000.
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Mary Bryan
Though literary historian
says that
took on the running of the business herself, Bryan later told her prospective patron,
, that her father took on its management for her, though he had no experience in the field. In any case, the firm, having moved from Corn Street in Bristol to 9 Clarence Place, was called
during 1815-23, then
in 1824. (Among works it published was A Sketch of the Life of the late , 1816, a work of local Bristol interest.) It moved offices again in 1825, after which it apparently survived only one more year. Some years before this a friend borrowed three hundred pounds for
, but this put her in renewed difficulties when in summer 1818 he needed to be repaid.
Mary Waldron, however, says it continued in Corn Street until 1824.
Margaret Bryan
As a widow,
began teaching girls in her own home before she opened a separate school. Her teaching activities are usually dated from 1795, but a handbill printed by a Mrs Bryan who is almost certainly the future writer, probably in that year, at Maidstone in Kent, makes her sound like an established teacher with extensive experience. Her books make her sound, too, like a genuine scientist.
Robert Williams Buchanan
was a poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright. After arriving in London in 1859, he was engaged by the Athenæum. He wrote for several other periodicals, and became known for his attacks on
and
, whom he accused of decadence. He produced several novels and many successful plays.
Henry Thomas Buckle
In 1857 he published his successful History of Civilization in England.
was a strong critic of methods used by others in his field.
Cicely Bulstrode
As lady-in-waiting to
,
's queen, from 1607,
became for the last two years of her short life part of the court's social circle.
Selina Bunbury
She taught at a primary school while in Dublin. At this time she also began to write in secret.
Jacob Burckhardt
pioneered cultural history with the publication of Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien (The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy); it was translated into English by
in 1878. Its fifth part included a brief chapter entitled Equality of Men and Women, which claimed that this equality was a feature of the Italian Renaissance. Burckhardt writes that many upper-class women received an excellent education; some women achieved heroism, and
achieved immortality.
Anne Burke
, who had previously worked as a governess in private families, planned when she received her first tiny grant from the
to open a small school, but it is not clear whether she ever did this.
John Burke
He produced the standard works of reference Burke's Peerage (which incorporated an account of the national Baronetage and Knightage) and the unprecedented Burke's Landed Gentry, as well as many other titles. These two continued to be regularly updated and re-issued after his death and up to the present. He established his own dynasty, since he was succeeded as editor by a son and then a grandson, both of whom achieved knighthood themselves.
Elizabeth Burnet
England
Frances Hodgson Burnett
On their arrival in the USA, Frances, who was just turning fifteen, set up a small school with which to help the family finances. She called it a Select Seminary for Young People. Few of the parents could afford to pay cash, but payments in kind (eggs, butter, meat) were almost equally acceptable.
Robert Burns
learned the craft of a ploughman as a boy. Like his father, he held various jobs but was from his young adulthood primarily a tenant farmer. His Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect appeared at the end of July 1786, at a time when life was so hard that he was contemplating emigration to Jamaica. He later held a steady, paying, and pensionable job as an exciseman.
Catharine Burton
A Career
Lady Eleanor Butler
Scholarship
Augusta Ada Byron
Charles Babbage
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron
In Venice he discovered surviving letters from
to
, and wrote to his publisher,
, about getting them into print. Murray, however, did not respond.
Medora Gordon Byron
Of everything that Jane Briancourt says of her , the story that she worked as governess in an opulent, but dull family is the single detail that sounds least unlikely to be true of the novelist.
Jessie Ellen Cadell
She became a serious researcher into Persian poetry, collating manuscripts of
not only in London but also in Paris and Venice. She seems also to have carried out research into Indian history—though she made her fictional character Helen look back on her own days of historical research as a nightmare.
Margaret Calderwood
Home from her travels,
devoted herself to home duties, including the management of her husband's estates at Coltness.
Joanna Cannan
had early envisaged herself having a career as an artist, but her plans were disrupted by the First World War. In 1914 she joined the
(Voluntary Aid Detachment) to work as a nurse. She also worked in her father's office, the editorial department at
, which was short-handed because male employees had joined the army. This work included preparing the Quarterly Journal of Medicine for the press.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
She also taught a younger aunt and two other girls drawing, geography, and French.
Lucy Cary
As a young woman at the court of
,
was known for fine dressing and jeering wit. Her desire to become a nun was embarrassing for her mother, who was negotiating a court post for her. She probably entered the convent about the time of her mother's death.
Jane Cave
She was, however, a working woman. Her friends at Bath included milliners' apprentices, which suggests she may have worked as a milliner's apprentice herself.
Margaret Cavendish
To her family's anxiety, the excruciatingly shy
insisted out of patriotic idealism on becoming Maid of Honour to Queen Mary (
), who was then in Oxford.
Susanna Centlivre
undoubtedly had an acting career, though it is little documented and was probably, therefore, confined to provincial theatres. She is variously said to have run away from home with a troupe of strolling players very early in life, and to have begun acting at Bath shortly before her marriage, in her own Love at a Venture.