Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press.
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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 | 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... |
Education | Harriet Beecher Stowe | HBS
's domestic training consisted of learning knitting, sewing, and Presbyterian and Episcopal church catechisms from an aunt and grandmother who were skilled at weaving and embroidery. Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press. 12-13 |
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 | Germaine Greer | After some years living as a bohemian in Sydney, Greer enrolled at the University of Sydney
for an MA in English. Her thesis subject was The Development of Byron
's Satiric Mode, and she... |
Education | John Ruskin | Taught at home until the age of fourteen by his parents and private tutors, JR
developed his drawing, and received an education that encouraged a love of Romantic Literature (including Byron
, Wordsworth
, and... |
Education | Anna Swanwick | |
Education | Mary Sewell | |
Education | Mary Matilda Betham | More important than his teaching were her own efforts in a congenial atmosphere. The family would read aloud from poems and plays, providing their own appreciation and criticism. In her diary she wrote: In our... |
Education | Pauline Johnson | |
Education | Florence Dixie | Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary... |
Education | Annie Tinsley | |
Education | Charlotte Guest | Lady Charlotte received a standard home education. She soon found that she loved serious learning and set out to pursue it. Studying on her own, she discovered and devoured Chaucer
(from whom as an old... |
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