Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph.
166, 198, 283
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Publishing | Alison Uttley | AU
published The Washerwoman's Child, A Play on the Life and Stories of Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Irene Hawkins
. Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph. 166, 198, 283 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Education | Rosemary Sutcliff | Rosemary's mother was probably her most important teacher. She told her stories which, no matter how outlandish and fantastic, the very young Rosemary accepted as literal truth; she later imparted all kinds of varied information... |
Education | Mary Stewart | The village of Trimdon was so isolated that there was little to do but play games and read. By the time she was four Mary could read, having begged to be included in the reading... |
Education | Christina Stead | CS
's father
would have liked to have her education entirely in his own hands. The first books to be her favourites were the works of W. T. Stead
, and fairy stories by the... |
Education | Evelyn Sharp | ES
received her first education at home, from her sisters Ethel, Bertha, and Mabel (the eldest), who taught the younger ones Bible stories on Sundays. At the same time she imbibed from her brothers the... |
Textual Features | Christina Rossetti | Influences that manifested themselves somewhat later in CR
's career were those of fairy tales—Perrault
, Keightley
, and later Hans Christian Andersen
—and later poets including Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, whom... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | In EdinburghER
attended an August 1847 dinner party given to celebrate the completion of the Scott Monument in Princes Street. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 62 |
Reception | E. Nesbit | EN
's books for children brought her extensive fan-mail from readers. She was conscientious about answering them, often in long letters discussing some moral problem such as the attempt to control one's temper. Some of... |
Education | Alice Munro | |
Education | Naomi Jacob | One of NJ
's favourite home occupations even as a small child was improvised acting, with her sister in spear-carrying roles. She also learned cricket and football, and her grandfather Collinson taught her whist. She... |
Textual Production | Mary Howitt | MH
published her first translations from Hans Christian Andersen
, The Improvisatore; or, Life in Italy and Only a Fiddler!; they were the first English versions ever made from his Danish. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 143-5, 150 Athenæum. J. Lection. 906 (1845): 235 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | Visitors who stayed with the Howitts at The Elms included Hans Christian Andersen
, Tennyson
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and Eliza Meteyard
, who wrote as Silver Pen. Their circle also included Charles Dickens |
Textual Production | Mary Howitt | Having taught herself Swedish during her sojourn in Germany, MH
formed a taste for Swedish and Danish literature, and a determination to introduce it into English. She tackled the contemporary writers Fredrika Bremer
and... |
Textual Production | Mary Howitt | The museum at Odense in Denmark, birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen
, holds some MH
material. A copy of R. H. Horne
's A New Spirit of the Age in Harvard University Library
has... |
Textual Production | Rumer Godden | RG
published her eminently readablebiography of Hans Christian Andersen
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 161 British Book News. British Council. (1955): 1193 |