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Education | Marjorie Bowen | |
Education | Dora Greenwell | Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke. 73 |
Education | Frances Mary Peard | However, according to her biographer, Mary J. Y. Harris
, she was largely self-taught. Her mother never restricted her reading, and she later remembered tackling at an early age such classics as Scott
, Shakespeare |
Education | Jane Porter | Their mother, when she was widowed, moved her family to Edinburgh in 1780, partly for the sake of the future advantage of a good education at a moderate expense. In Scotland, wrote JP
later, a... |
Education | Maria Riddell | The future MR
was in all probability privately educated. At sixteen she wrote a poem to commemorate the pleasure of reading with a friend the works of Milton
, Pope
, Spenser
, Shakespeare
... |
Education | Christina Rossetti | From 1878 to 1880, she took classes on Dante
's Divine Comedy at University College, London
, perhaps in part because she was helping Alexander Grosart
to trace references from Italian poets for his edition... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Elizabeth I | In the minds of the country's ruling class, a marriage for the queen was also necessary. Some have supposed that at this stage Elizabeth may have hoped to marry one day, although she herself publicly... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Stewart | The novel is set in southern France: the action begins in Avignon and concludes in Marseilles. Epigraphs to chapters range through the traditional English literary canon—Chaucer
, Spenser
, Shakespeare
, Robert Browning |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Isabella Duberly | FID
turns frequently in her journal to literary quotation. She often quotes from poets whose popularity has waned, but she also calls on Longfellow
, Duberly, Frances Isabella. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6. Editor Kelly, Christine, Oxford University Press. 216 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Florence Nightingale | In tribute to Jones's work, FN
invokes the character of Una (symbol of truth, foe to error) from Spenser
's The Faerie Queene in her bid to inspire others to take on similar religious work... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Clementina Black | Meanwhile Orlando establishes a relationship of friendship and equality with Viola Cash, a young woman who embodies intelligence, practicality, and activity as well as beauty. She supports improved education for women, and is not afraid... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Norton | After this success Caroline began on a Romantic narrative poem in Spenser
ian stanzas, set in America, to be called Amouida and Sebastian; but she did not finish it. Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby. 29 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Tighe | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Williams | She takes her title from the name of the knight of Justice in Spenser
's The Faerie Queen, whom she quotes in an epigraph on the title page. The publication was written in response... |