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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 |
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 |
Textual Features | Caroline Norton | For epigraph she chose a quotation from her friend Sidney Herbert
, calling for better communication between different social ranks. Employing Spenser
ian stanzas (CN
listed The Faerie Queene among her favourite poems), the... |
Textual Features | Caroline Norton | Opening in Milton
ic tones of high seriousness but in Spenser
ian stanzas, the poem offers up childhood as the last echo of Eden spared to humanity after the fall. The sustained trope is that... |
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... |
Textual Features | Anne Mozley | Wordsworth observed of her poetry anthologies in general that they mixed the contemporary with the canonical: Spenser
, Cowley
. . . stand side by side with Monckton Milnes
and Miss Barrett
. Wordsworth, John, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, p. xii - xx. ix |
Textual Production | Sarah Wentworth Morton | She found this story in a recent issue of the American Museum, where it was set in Canada. American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. |
Publishing | Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke | Spenser
published Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
's Lay, together with his own Astrophel, in his Colin Clouts Come Home Againe. Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke,. “Introduction”. The Triumph of Death, edited by Gary F. Waller, University of Salzburg, pp. 1-64. 54-5 |
Occupation | Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke | The Countess of Pembroke's patronage was marked by eulogies and dedications (more than thirty) from many writers, including Ben Jonson
, Nicholas Breton
, and Samuel Daniel
. Daniel later told her elder son that... |
Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan | |
Textual Production | Katharine S. Macquoid | The last novel by the nearly ninety-year-old KSM
, Molly Montague's Love Story, appeared at London with the National Society's Depository
. She headed it, like her first book, with a quotation from Spenser |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine S. Macquoid | A Bad Beginning's title-page quotes Spenser
, on the wrongness of binding in love those whom God has not ordained for each other. As every English reader would have expected, the French marriage of... |
Literary responses | Emily Lawless | William Ewart Gladstone
originally took With Essex in Ireland to be an authentic account. Edith Sichel
suggests that it required Homeric naïveté and immense power of belief to take it for a contemporary document, but... |
Textual Features | Emily Lawless | The volume is suffused with lament for the plight of Ireland past and present, as in the Dirge for All Ireland. 1581. This was the second year of the brutal colonising campaign of the... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Isham | Her needlework included doing Irish stitch, tent stitch, and purse-work, making bone lace and bodices, and knitting stockings, and she often gathered flowers in order to copy them in stitching. Isham, Elizabeth. “Diary”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham. 1636 Isham, Elizabeth. “Booke of Rememberances”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham, edited by Elizabeth Clarke. 26r |
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