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Education | Catherine Cookson | As a young adult CC
took on her own education. With varying degrees of success she studied grammar, elocution, French, and the violin. She also discovered the public library. Colleagues at work got her to... |
Education | P. L. Travers | Here she got through lots of reading, beginning with Gibbon
's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and proved inventive in breaking rules. She discovered the theatre through acting coach Lawrence Campbell
... |
Education | Sybille Bedford | The idea had been that Jack and Suzan Robbins should select a boarding school for Sibylle and have her to stay for the holidays. Instead, with the money provided by her family and trustees, they... |
Education | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it... |
Education | Fredrika Bremer | She was frustrating to her teachers too, as, according to Frumerie, she had an unusually good memory while studying, yet she could never remember what was told her in daily life. Bremer, Fredrika. Life, Letters, and Posthumous Works of Fredrika Bremer. Editor Bremer, Charlotte, Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1868, https://archive.org/details/lifelettersposth00bremuoft/mode/2up. 18 |
Education | Elinor Glyn | After Elinor Sutherland (later EG
) turned fourteen she no longer had a governess. Eager for intellectual stimulation, she took it upon herself to read everything in her stepfather
's book collection, which had recently... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | As a widow, Lady Elizabeth received a proposal of marriage from Edward Gibbon
; she turned him down. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Stevenson | Her mother, Louise (Destler)
, was the wife of a student when she bore her eldest daughter, and herself read Gibbon
's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire while nursing. She then had... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothea Celesia | DC
's stepmother, born Lucy Elstob
, was a distant relation of the scholar Elizabeth Elstob
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Friends, Associates | Dorothea Celesia | Gibbon
visited DC
again in May and June 1764 in Genoa (where he was staying after finding Venice impossibly expensive). Again she received him with a friendliness beyond mere politeness and introduced him to some... |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke
in Bristol the previous September... |
Friends, Associates | Dorothea Celesia | DC
's birth family had accustomed her to moving in literary, political, and theatrical circles, and her friends included Mary Lady Hervey
, David Hume
, David Garrick
, and Edward Gibbon
. Her father... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Kingsford | The title story, Rosamunda the Princess, takes place in Dark Age Italy in the political turmoil that followed the fall of the Roman Empire. Rosamund's story is recounted in Edward Gibbon
's History of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Virginia Woolf | Rachel leaves home on her voyage hoping to broaden her experience and come to understand herself and the world, but finds herself in a physical space and a society that are constricting. Although it seemed... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Joanna Baillie | JB
took her subject-matter from Gibbon
's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Her play's magnificence and show Dowd, Maureen A. “’By the Delicate Hand of a Female’: Melodramatic Mania and Joanna Baillie’s Spectacular Tragedies”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 4, 1998, pp. 469-00. 476 |