Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
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Georgiana Chatterton
Rebecca's mother was born Martha Chatterton. Rebecca (also known as Pysie) had maintained a close relationship with GC
since she was young, visiting or staying with her mother at the Chattertons', and later doing...
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Violet Hunt
The youngest of the three girls was christened Sylvia Kingsley after Holman Hunt
's painting Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus (an illustration to Shakespeare
's Two Gentlemen of Verona), but the spelling was changed...
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Dinah Mulock Craik
George Lillie Craik became (following his marriage to Dinah Mulock and possibly as a result of his connection with her) a partner in the Macmillan publishing firm
.
VW
's mother, née Julia Prinsep Jackson
(1846-95), was born in India and brought to England as a toddler.
Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File, 1995.
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She was a favourite niece (and subject) of photographer Julia Margaret Cameron
, on whom...
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Fay Weldon
Fay's maternal grandmother, whom she calls Frieda early in her autobiography but Nona from the time they became close, and who was called Susan by her husband, had modelled for Holman Hunt
as a girl...