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Education | Edna Lyall | Since the cousin with whom she shared lessons was three years older, Ada Ellen read a good many books at that time which must have been far beyond . . . [her] powers. At twelve... |
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... |
Education | Elinor Glyn | As a girl, the future EG
loved to hear Tennyson
's poetry, especially the Idylls of the King (published from 1859), many of which she learned by heart. She also adored George MacDonald
's The... |
Education | Olivia Manning | At home Olivia was encouraged to love poetry, learned to read by the time she was four, and was later subjected to piano lessons which taught her nothing. As a teenager and thinking of herself... |
Education | John Strange Winter | After this she completed her education at home. Although even in this context she says, I was not well educated, for I never would learn, Bainton, George, editor. The Art of Authorship. J. Clarke. 24 |
Education | Laura Ormiston Chant | As a consequence of her parents' discipline, Laura (who had till then been educated at home) ran away at fifteen, and was subsequently sent to a boarding school in Chester. While there she developed... |
Education | Adelaide Procter | In 1850, AP
was among the first students to attend Queen's College
for women students. One of the teachers here was Charles Kingsley
, and it has been argued that she was more influenced by... |
Cultural formation | Lucas Malet | LM
(together with her niece
) became a convert to Roman Catholicism: a remarkable rejection of the life's work of her father
, who was not only an Anglican but a militant anti-Catholic. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Charles Kingsley |
Cultural formation | Annie Keary | Around the same time, too, AK
underwent a crisis of religious faith. She was troubled by various points of orthodox belief, but particularly the doctrine of eternal punishment Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan. 75 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Charles | EC
knew many leaders of Victorian religious thought, including Archibald Tait
(Archbishop of Canterbury), writer and cleric Charles Kingsley
, and Edward Pusey
, the central figure of the Oxford Movement. The legacy of... |
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