Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991.
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Characters | Josephine Tey | Several are based on historical or biblical material. The title play, named after a district of Edinburgh, features the actual Duncan Forbes
, a local Whig who was remembered for showing compassion and clemency to... |
Cultural formation | Rose Macaulay | RM
notes that after her forebears left Scotland for England, male family members became mostly Anglican parsons until her father's generation. Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991. 11 |
Cultural formation | Amelia Opie | It may be significant that this was just two months before her father's death, though her friendship with the Gurney family was also important in her decision to convert. For more than a year she... |
Education | Penelope Shuttle | Some sources say that PS
attended a secondary modern school in Staines (that is one with non-academic aims and expectations). But attendance at a private school is strongly implied by her poem about a girls'... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Noel Streatfeild | The prison reformer Elizabeth Fry
was NS
's great-great-grandmother. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | Springing from a distinguished Quaker family, MAS
had a large circle of cousins who made a name for themselves in one way or another. Her cousins included the writer Priscilla Wakefield
, and the sisters... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Harcourt | MH
became a friend and correspondent of Frances Burney
, and also of the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry
, to whom she wrote in early 1819 This letter is dated 1818 in the Memoir of... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Fletcher | Hamilton, herself a conservative, set about de-demonizing EF
's political reputation. She had good success in persuading her friends that Mrs Fletcher was not the ferocious Democrat she had been represented, and that she neither... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | In Nottingham MH
met L. E. L.
and perhaps Elizabeth Fry
. She was visited by Mary
and Dora Wordsworth
(wife and daughter of the poet), and later she and her husband stayed with the... |
Friends, Associates | Hannah Kilham | As a Quaker she met William Allen
, president of the African Association
, who interested her in the welfare of the black colony at Sierra Leone. She was also a friend of James Montgomery |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Among her nineteenth-century visitors were Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(brought by Joseph Cottle
the Bristol bookseller), Cottle, Joseph. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. 2nd ed., Houlston and Stoneman, 1847. 54 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Martha Sherwood | Meeting the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry
, MMS
discussed with her the danger of celebrity, for females especially, and their respective temptations. Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton, 1854. 537 |
Friends, Associates | Maria Edgeworth | Among her many social engagements, she attended a house-party at the home of Whig MP and agriculturalist Sir John Sebright
, whose guests included Dr Wollaston
and the science-writers Jane Marcet
and Mary Somerville
... |
Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | AO
's friendship with Anne
and Annabella Plumptre
(daughters of Robert Plumptre
, Prebend of Norwich, both of whom grew up to be writers) dated from their shared childhood. Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix. xxvi, ix-x |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Stickney Ellis | Among her few writing friends were Mary Howitt
and her relations by marriage Mary
and Anna Sewell
. She greatly admired without personally knowing Elizabeth Fry
, and felt a personal connection to Charlotte Brontë |