AW
was expelled (for writing a novel about love, according to what she says in the guise of her first novel) from an expensive girls' school, the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Roehampton near...
Family and Intimate relationships
Fanny Kingsley
In her biography of her husband, FK
addresses the union only briefly, writing: Early in 1844 Charles Kingsley was married to Fanny, daughter of Pascoe Grenfell and Georgiana St Leger his wife. The ceremony was...
Family and Intimate relationships
Fanny Kingsley
FK
's elder son, Maurice Kingsley
, was educated away from home after the age of nine. FK
felt his leaving home acutely, writing to Charles in 1858 that we have been married fourteen years...
Family and Intimate relationships
Antonia White
AW
's daughter Susan
(by Silas Glossop
) was born, after a long and difficult labour.
Chitty, Susan. Now To My Mother. Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
32
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape.
117
Family and Intimate relationships
Antonia White
AW
's daughter Susan Chitty
asserts: The trouble with my mother was her father.
Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, pp. 32-4.
32
AW
wrote in her diary of her sexual desire for her father, and also of her hatred: I spit on...
Family and Intimate relationships
Antonia White
This was three months after the annulment of AW
's first marriage came through. Eric had a job with the Foreign Office
.
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape.
94-5
Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, pp. 32-4.
32
They were married for five years, successfully, without any sexual...
Intertextuality and Influence
Fanny Kingsley
FK
's biography remained the primary source on the life of Charles Kingsley through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; all subsequent biographies have relied on it to varying degrees. The first twentieth-century biography, Charles Kingsley...
Leisure and Society
Fanny Kingsley
FK
was well respected by the family's social circle, and attended several notable events with her husband. Both Charles and Fanny Kingsley were invited to the wedding on 10 March 1863 of Edward, Prince of Wales
Occupation
Fanny Kingsley
FK
took an active position as the wife of a Rector at Eversley. When the couple arrived, the seventeenth-century rectory was in disrepair, and flooded in heavy rain. Brenda Colloms notes that, nevertheless, there...
Textual Production
Fanny Kingsley
FK
composed this biography at Byfleet in Surrey during her temporary residence there in the year following her husband's death and her enforced removal from the rectory at Eversley. She consulted extensively with several...
Textual Production
Anna Sewell
AS
kept a diary throughout her life, and also wrote one serious poem and several stories in verse that, according to scholar Lopa Prusty, combine humor and whimsicality with a darker sense of nature.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research.
262
Textual Production
Antonia White
AW
's daughter Susan Chitty
edited her mother's early autobiography and other writings under the title As Once in May.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
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.
Textual Production
Antonia White
The editing of AW
's unpublished diaries (which occupy forty binders in manuscript) caused public disagreement between her daughters.
Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, pp. 32-4.
32
Susan Chitty
published two volumes of them in 1991 and 1992.
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape.
435
Textual Production
Antonia White
AW
's unpublished writings and diaries are in the care of her daughter Susan Chitty
.
