Palmer, Alicia Tyndal. The Daughters of Isenberg. Lackington, Allen, 1810, 4 vols.
prelims
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Anthologization | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | For a young woman who had never attended university (as she of course could not at this time) to offer a translation from a classical language was both courageous and confident. It was a long... |
Anthologization | Sarah Lady Pennington | An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters quickly became a staple of composite volumes directed toward young women's conduct. At Edinburgh a volume of this kind, Instructions for a Young Lady, in every sphere... |
Characters | Alicia Tyndal Palmer | An introductory poem summarises desirable female qualities: Formed by the Graces, loveliness itself, / Come, with those downcast eyes sedate and sweet, / Those modest looks that deeply touch the soul. Palmer, Alicia Tyndal. The Daughters of Isenberg. Lackington, Allen, 1810, 4 vols. prelims Feminist Companion Archive. |
Cultural formation | Phillis Wheatley | PW
was a black African, whose colour dictated all her life-experiences as a slave in the USA (a British colony during much of her life) from the moment when, at the age of seven or... |
Education | Maria Callcott | She was, she said, mainly self-educated from the books which were all around her. (She read Pope
's Homer
at nine.) She studied Sanskrit, Persian, and Icelandic as an adult. She later believed firmly that... |
Education | Ruth Padel | She found school work (at Byron House school in Highgate and then at the highly academic North London Collegiate
) difficult. She always got an A for English essays, although she would write a short... |
Education | Virginia Woolf | Virginia read Aeschylus
, Homer
, Sophocles
, and Plato
, among others, with Clara Pater. In 1902, however, the Cambridge-educated Janet Case
, who was a feminist as well as a classicist, took over... |
Education | May Sinclair | Here she extended her already very considerable reading in English literature and philosophy, and in the Greeks from Homer
and Æschylus
. She also studied modern languages and several branches of mathematics and science. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000. 24-5 |
Education | Frances Power Cobbe | She was able to learn a little Greek and geometry from the local parson, though she read Homer
in translation. Cobbe, Frances Power. Life of Frances Power Cobbe. Houghton, Mifflin, 1894, 2 vols. 1: 62 Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004. 51 |
Education | Mary Agnes Hamilton | On holidays her father
taught his children to shoot with arrows and to play on pipes which they had made themselves, to light fires, and boys and girls alike, how to row, to swim, to... |
Education | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | |
Education | Jane Johnson | She was without formal education. Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009. 162 Arizpe, Evelyn et al. Reading Lessons from the Eighteenth Century: Mothers, Children and Texts. Pied Piper Publishing, 2006. 31 |
Fictionalization | Sappho | In the twentieth century Sappho
continued full of potential for poets and prose-writers. Naomi Mitchison
fictionalises her supposed school; Eavan Boland
takes her as guide on an underworld journey (as Dante took Virgil); Jeanette Winterson |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Carson | AC
's starting-point is the poem about Geryon by the Greek lyric poet Stesichoros
or Stesichorus, whose surviving writings are so gnomic and fragmentary that every statement about them remains hesitant and uncertain. Stesichoros is... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hélène Cixous | HC
plays at length with allusions to Homer
's Trojan War, first blending Helen with herself since they share a first name. Helen, whose elopement with Paris of Troy caused the Trojan War, is made... |