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Education | Clementina Black | CB
was mainly educated at home by her mother and brothers. Her brothers were said to have given her a thorough grounding in both geography and mathematics. She also possessed an impressive command of French... |
Education | Emma Frances Brooke | Newnham College
opened in September 1871 with Anne Jemima Clough
as its principal, and with five pioneering students: Mary Paley (later Marshall
, who encouraged Jane Ellen Harrison
to follow her to Newnham), Edith Creak |
Education | Rumer Godden | RG
's determination to become a writer fuelled a continued self-education. Books were hard to come by in India, yet she managed to find and devour recent publications: Edith Sitwell
's Troy Park and Façade... |
Education | F. Tennyson Jesse | |
Education | Amy Levy | The school was one of these only recently set up by the Girls' Public Day School Company
. It also took younger boys, and two of Amy's brothers attended with her. The headmistress, Edith Creak |
Family and Intimate relationships | Clementina Black | Among CB
's younger sisters was Constance (Black) Garnett
, who became a noted translator of Russian literature. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000. 35 |
Friends, Associates | Clementina Black | During the 1880s CB
studied privately at the library of the British Museum
. At this time, |
Friends, Associates | Jessie Ellen Cadell | JEC
's friends in London included the scholar Richard Garnett
(superintendent of the British Museum
reading room and future father-in-law of another translator, Constance Garnett
). They met in 1877 or 1878, and Richard Garnett... |
Friends, Associates | Amy Levy | They included Olive Schreiner
, the future Beatrice Webb
, Dollie Maitland Radford
, Margaret Harkness
, Clementina Black
(whose sister Constance
had been a school friend of AL
), and Eleanor Marx
. Through... |
Occupation | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov | His work had great impact in England, where he was praised by George Bernard Shaw
, Katherine Mansfield
, Virginia Woolf
, and E. M. Forster
. Constance Garnett
translated many of his works... |
Performance of text | Ethel Lilian Voynich | In 1890, ELV
was, alongside Stepniak, both translating for and editing Free Russia, the journal of the Society of Friends of Russian Freedom
, for whom she smuggled forbidden books into Russia, meeting... |
politics | Clementina Black | In London she met Fabian and Marxist socialists. She was a good friend of Eleanor Marx
for some time, though their friendship later waned. Garnett, Richard. Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991. 40 |
Textual Features | Ethel Lilian Voynich | The protagonist, Olive Latham, called by one reviewer a matter-of-fact, square-toe-booted English hospital nurse, TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. 123 (20 May 1904): 156 She also... |