Ravenhall, Chris. “Lesley Storm’s Three Goose Quills and a Knife: A Burns Play Rediscovered”. Studies in Scottish Literature, pp. 46 -54.
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Birth | Lesley Storm | It is not known whether she had siblings. She was distantly related to the poet Lord Byron
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Birth | Augusta Ada Byron | AAB
, the only legitimate child of the poet Byron
and later a remarkable mathematician, was born at 13 Piccadilly Terrace, London. Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993. |
Characters | Elizabeth Thomas | Thomas
calls her Caroline Lamb
character Lady Calantha Limb, appropriating the Christian name of Lamb's heroine in Glenarvon, along with several of her speeches. Elizabeth Thomas
's own heroine, the beautiful, rich, cherished, seventeen-year-old... |
Characters | Harriet Lee | The volume opens with The Poet's Address, which excuses its disconnection from the original frame: Should you be good-naturedly disposed, you will not inquire minutely where the travellers were picked up by whom the... |
Characters | Mary Shelley | This novel has an epigraph from John Ford
's The Lover's Melancholy, 1629, about the storms and turmoil of human life. Shelley, Mary. Lodore. Vargo, LisaEditor , Broadview, 1997. 47 |
Cultural formation | Lady Caroline Lamb | As an adult, she became increasingly promiscuous. Her conduct in her affair with Byron
(who was at first dazzled by and obsessed with her, later implacably hostile in principle, though capable of softening when he... |
Cultural formation | Frances Trollope | FT
's tolerance of her local vicar was tested, however, when the poet Byron
decided to have his five-year-old, illegitimate daughter Allegra
—born to Claire Clairmont
—buried at Harrow-on-the-Hill, near which he had spent time... |
death | Germaine de Staël | Byron
, who was at work on the fourth canto of Childe Harold, attached a note to stanza 54 which said: CORINNA is no more. Staël, he wrote, had ceased to be a woman—she... |
death | Lady Caroline Lamb | LCL
died at Melbourne House in London; she left to Sydney Morgan
her portrait of Byron
and some of his letters. Her biographer Douglass dates her death as the 25th, while the Oxford Dictionary... |
Education | Elinor Glyn | |
Education | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it... |
Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |
Education | Elizabeth Grant | EG
refers to a number of texts that influenced her as a child. She learned to read by the age of three, taught by loving aunts, and remembered in particular Puss in Boots, Bluebeard... |
Education | Christina Rossetti | Christina and her siblings were educated by their mother
, in reading, writing, the Bible and rudimentary French. The boys were sent to school when they were seven, while the girls continued at home. Their... |
Education | Lydia Maria Child | At fifteen she read Paradise Lost (with her brother's encouragement) and was delighted with its grandeur and sublimity, but was bold enough to criticise Milton
for assert[ing] the superiority of his own sex in rather... |