Batho, Edith C., and Bonamy Dobree. The Victorians and After: 1830-1914. Cresset Press, 1962.
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Birth | Evelyn Sharp | One brother died before Evelyn was born, and another during the family's year of foreign travel. She had two younger brothers. She called her birthday a fine revolutionary anniversary because it was also the birthday... |
Cultural formation | Anna Steele | Her heritage was English: her mother
's family name, Michell, was said to derive from a village near St Columb Major in Cornwall, now spelled Mitchell. Both sides of Steel's family were presumably white... |
Cultural formation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | ACS
came from a noble family. His maternal grandparents were George, third earl of Ashburnham
and his wife (who was born Lady Charlotte Percy
). His paternal grandfather, Sir John Edward Swinburne
, owned an... |
Cultural formation | Robert Browning | The metaphysical themes of RB
's verse reflect his eclectic engagement with systems of belief: raised by a Nonconformist mother, he became an atheist as a consequence of reading Shelley Batho, Edith C., and Bonamy Dobree. The Victorians and After: 1830-1914. Cresset Press, 1962. 31 |
Dedications | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
published the long philosophical and historical poem Gabriel, dedicated to the memory of Percy Bysshe Shelley
. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001. 240: 186 |
Education | Jean Rhys | JR
attended the local Catholic convent school where whites were in the minority. Most of the girls were coloured (of mixed blood). Mother Mount Calvary, the Superior of the convent, gave her extra instruction in... |
Education | Christina Rossetti | Christina and her siblings were educated by their mother
, in reading, writing, the Bible and rudimentary French. The boys were sent to school when they were seven, while the girls continued at home. Their... |
Education | Marie Corelli | Looking back on her early education, MC
wrote I managed to develop into a curiously determined independent little personality, with ideas and opinions more suited to some clever young man. . . . I instinctively... |
Education | Carola Oman | When CO
was eight her father took her on a first visit to the Bodleian Library
; she came home and asked for a bookcase for her next birthday. At this age she worshippedShelley |
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 | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
taught herself to read. By the age of seven she had completed all of Scott
's novels. Crawford, Anne, editor. The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women. Europa Publications, 1983. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941. 265 Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941. 265 |
Education | Rumer Godden | In India, RG
later wrote, it was thought there were five things a girl needed to know if she were to take her place in any sort of society: to dance, to play the... |
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 | Anna Swanwick | |
Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |