Her father, Charles Cannan
, was an academic whose subject was classics. Having been a Fellow for twelve years before Joanna was born, he also became Dean of Trinity College, Oxford
, and in 1898...
Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. “Editorial Materials”. The Tears of War, edited by Charlotte Fyfe, Cavalier Books, 2000, p. Various pages.
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He died on 15 December 1919.
Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. “Editorial Materials”. The Tears of War, edited by Charlotte Fyfe, Cavalier Books, 2000, p. Various pages.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Harriet Smythies
He went to Shrewsbury School
from 1832 to 1835, and then matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford
, in December 1835, aged nineteen. He was vicar of parishes first in Northumberland, 1844-9, and then in...
Literary responses
Françoise de Graffigny
The current scholarly and feminist interest in FG
's work is shown by a flood of critical articles, the definitive edition of her letters, a website on them mounted by the University of Toronto
at...
Occupation
Frances Reynolds
Samuel Johnson
was eager to sit for her, and did so on three occasions: in March 1775, in June 1780, and in summer 1783. He may have been sitting for her on the day before...