Whereas the two Brett boys were sent off to boarding school for a formal education, Dorothy and Sylvia were taught at home, leading a starkly sheltered existence that, Brett believed, arrested their maturation. After the...
Education
Penelope Lively
Initially learning at home, Penelope became well versed in the Authorised Version, tales of Greece and Rome, The Arabian Nights and not much else.
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Grove Press, 2001.
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She was passionately addicted to Greek mythology, but...
Instructor
Kathleen E. Innes
About 1910-11, she spent four terms studying under author and naturalist William Henry Hudson
in a University Extension programme taught at Gresham College
. She graduated from this course first in her class and was...
Literary responses
Violet Hunt
To varying degrees, critics have valued VH
's recollections of artistic contemporaries more than her style or other aspects of the memoirs. In a brief review in the Nation and Athenæum on 20 March 1926,...
Sources from which excerpts are taken include Jane Austen
's letters, William Cobbett
's Rural Rides, painter Anna Lea Merritt
's book A Hamlet in Old Hampshire, Hampshire Days by William Henry Hudson
Textual Production
Kathleen E. Innes
Kathleen E. Royds
(later Innes) published Coleridge
and his Poetry, a bio-critical analysis, in the Poetry and Life Series edited by William Henry Hudson
.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
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