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.
Elizabeth Fry
Standard Name: Fry, Elizabeth
Used Form: Elizabeth Gurney Fry
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Family and Intimate relationships | Noel Streatfeild | |
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'... |
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... |
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. 11 |
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... |
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