Agnes Strickland
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Standard Name: Strickland, Agnes
Birth Name: Agnes Strickland
AS
, writing in the middle nineteenth century, won renown as a historian and biographer, particularly of the British royal family and particularly of its female members. In fact all of these books were co-authored by her sister Elizabeth
, who, however, preferred that their books should appear in Agnes's name alone. AS
also wrote poetry, songs, children's books, and novels.
Works by other Strickland sisters, notably Catharine Parr Traill
, are frequently misattributed to AS
by library catalogues.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
death | Elizabeth Strickland | ES
died; her death followed the year after that of her sister Agnes
. “Catharine Parr Traill - Chronology”. Library and Archives Canada: Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill. |
Dedications | Susanna Moodie | Susanna Moodie
published her personal narrative Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada, dedicated to her sister Agnes Strickland
, Author of the Lives of the Queens of England. Moodie, Susanna, and Susan Glickman. Roughing It in the Bush. McClelland and Stewart, 1989. v |
Education | Ann Bridge | As a small child she stood out among the family for her quite exceptional naughtiness, which in later years she put down to surplus energy and dramatic ideas. Bridge, Ann. A Family of Two Worlds. Macmillan, 1955. 141 |
Education | Elinor Glyn | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Strickland | ES
's closest relationship in her family was that with her next sister, Agnes
(1796-1874), together with whom she built her writing career. (From about mid-century if not earlier, their relationship was regularly disrupted by... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Moodie | Among SM
's five sisters, four became writers: Eliza or Elizabeth Strickland
, Agnes Strickland
(whose Lives of the Queens of England and other books were co-written with Elizabeth but bore her name alone), Jane Strickland |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Parr Traill | Her sisters included the writers Agnes Strickland
, Elizabeth Strickland
, and Susanna Moodie
. She shared a particularly close bond with Susanna, her fellow emigrant. Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999. 5, 212 |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | Eliza Lynn met a number of women authors who were once applauded but later complacently forgotten . . . . as literary fossils. Linton, Eliza Lynn, and Beatrice Harraden. My Literary Life. Hodder and Stoughton, 1899. 85 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Porter | The Porters' mother lived a busy social life on limited means, and JP
kept up this tradition. Sir Walter Scott
was an early friend. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 265 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | In London, she met theCarlyles
and John Gibson Lockhart
's daughter Charlotte
. She was also introduced to her future husband, Charles Eastlake
. She called on Agnes Strickland
and Maria Edgeworth
. Lord Shaftesbury |
Instructor | Susanna Moodie | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Selina Bunbury | She drew chiefly on the histories written by George Cavendish
and Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
, and that in Agnes
and Elizabeth Strickland
's Lives of the Queens of England. Bunbury, Selina. The Star of the Court. Grant and Griffith, 1844. vi |
Intertextuality and Influence | Winifred Peck | Her chapter-headings quote from Agnes Strickland
and Edith Sitwell
as well as an eclectic range of male authors from Homer
onwards. Quotations abound in the text as well as the epigraphs, and not all of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jean Plaidy | The following eighty or so novels that she wrote under this pseudonym garnered her a wide following. Even before becoming Jean Plaidy she had studied the business aspect of authorship and had learned that whatever... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Howitt | In 1851 MH
edited an illustrated volume of Biographical Sketches of the Queens of Great Britain from the Norman Conquest to The Reign of Victoria; or, Royal Book of Beauty; this followed in the... |
Timeline
1831
Joseph Rickerby
established himself as a printer and publisher at 3 Sherbourn Lane, London.
By 2 August 1856
Jane Margaret Strickland
published a novel, Adonijah, a tale of the Jewish Dispersion; it was shortly attacked by George Eliot
in Silly Novels by Lady Novelists as one of the deplorable types of fiction...
1861
A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued what seems to be the earliest version of a game called Authors, whose object was to collect sets of cards bearing the names of writers and the...