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.
Photograph of a painting of Agnes Strickland by John Hayes, 1846. She is seated with her elbow resting on a wooden table. She is wearing a black velvet dress that laces at the front, over a cream coloured shirt that is trimmed with ruffles. Her sleeves are trimmed with cream coloured lace and pearls, and she is wearing a matching pearl bracelet. Her dark hair is curly, and partly pulled back. She holds a small paper scroll with early-period writing on it, and perhaps a seal. National Portrait Gallery.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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When she began regular lessons, and...
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.
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Textual Features George Eliot
The white neck-cloth species, exemplified by Caroline Scott 's The Old Grey Church, is both upper-class and fervently Evangelical in setting: a kind of genteel tract on a large scale, intended as a sort...
Reception Queen Elizabeth I
The immense and long-lasting interest aroused by Elizabeth is not, of course, primarily due to her writings, any more than were the adulation paid her during her lifetime, the cult of Gloriana, the Virgin Queen...
Textual Features Millicent Garrett Fawcett
All the five subjects are royal or noble (like the subjects of Agnes Strickland ), except one: Joan of Arc , whom MGF ardently admired. The others include the writer Marguerite de Navarre and her...
Textual Production Antonia Fraser
In Boadicea's Chariot: The Warrior Queens, AF engaged with modern gender analysis while also catering to the taste for books about woman rulers (a taste which has lasted from Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland to...
Education Elinor Glyn
Since she abhorred her governesses, Elinor took her education into her own hands, reading every book she could in the library: Pepys 's diary, Cervantes ' Don Quixote (an eighteenth-century French version), Scott , Agnes
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...
Textual Production Catherine Hutton
It seems probable that this project was sparked by Mary Hays 's biographical dictionary of women, Memoirs of Queens, Illustrious and Celebrated, which was published, incomplete, in summer 1821.
It was still at least...
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.
85
She contended that Women who wrote were then few and far...
Literary responses Harriet Martineau
HM liked this the best of all her works.
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
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Its reception by others was predictably mixed. In the Unitarian Prospective Review, John James Tayler praised its descriptive eloquence, noted the strong censure...
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.
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In...
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
Instructor Susanna Moodie
SM 's two elder sisters were well educated but the family could not afford a similar privilege for Catharine and Susanna, who were educated by their father and the elder sisters, Agnes and Elizabeth ....
Textual Production Susanna Moodie
In 1830 SM and her sister Agnes Strickland published Patriotic Songs, a pamphlet of poems.
Moodie, Susanna et al. Patriotic Songs, 1830. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/moodie-traill/027013-5007-e.html.
prelims
Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press.
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Timeline

1831: Joseph Rickerby established himself as a...

Writing climate item

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,...

Women writers item

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...

Writing climate item

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...

Texts

Strickland, Agnes. Demetrius: A Tale of Modern Greece. James Fraser, 1833.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland, editors. Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots. H. Colburn, 1842.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland. Lives of the Bachelor Kings of England. Simpkin, Marshall, 1861.
Strickland, Agnes. Lives of the Last Four Princesses of the Royal House of Stuart. Bell and Daldy, 1872.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. H. Colburn, 1840.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. G. Barrie, 1902.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland. Lives of the Queens of Scotland. W. Blackwood, 1859.
Strickland, Agnes. Lives of the Tudor Princesses. Editor Strickland, Elizabeth, Longman’s, Green, 1868.
Moodie, Susanna et al. Patriotic Songs. J. Green, 1830.
Moodie, Susanna et al. Patriotic Songs, 1830. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/moodie-traill/027013-5007-e.html.
Strickland, Agnes et al. Prejudice Reproved; or, The History of the Negro Toy-Seller. Harvey and Darton, 1826.
Strickland, Agnes. Queen Victoria from Her Birth to Her Bridal. H. Colburn, 1840.
Traill, Catharine Parr. The Canadian Crusoes: A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains. Editor Strickland, Agnes, Hall, Virtue, 1852.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland. The Lives of the Seven Bishops Committed to the Tower in 1688. Bell and Daldy, 1866.
Strickland, Agnes. The Pilgrims of Walsingham. Saunders and Otley, 1835.
Strickland, Agnes. The Royal Brothers. Jarrold, 1876.
Strickland, Agnes. The Seven Ages of Woman, and Other Poems. Hurst, Chance, 1828.
Strickland, Agnes. Worcester Field; or, The Cavalier. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826.