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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Susanna Moodie
SM imagined bringing the benefits of literature to an audience of yeomen and mechanics,
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking.
198
a demographic that would not compete with the market sought by the Literary Garland, which continued to pay for...
Literary responses Susanna Moodie
Her family in England was horrified, seeing in this book the complete collapse of family respectability. Her sister Sarah wrote to Moodie's daughter: You cannot imagine how vexed and mortified my dear sister Agnes was...
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...
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.
265
When she moved to London, JP included among her friends...
Occupation Jane Porter
JP discovered in Russia some unpublished letters of Mary Queen of Scots , which she transcribed, and sent to her friends Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland for their edition.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
112-13
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
Literary responses Lucy Toulmin Smith
As an anonymous writer for the Times rather oddly phrased it in an obituary, LTS 's services to English scholarship and literature were altogether out of proportion to her notoriety.
“Miss Lucy Toulmin Smith”. Times, No. 39774, p. 11.
39774 (1911):11
Although she is...
Residence Elizabeth Strickland
ES bought a house at Tilford in Surrey. Her sister Agnes visited often during the next decade, but did not live there.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
241
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.
Author summary Elizabeth Strickland
ES published her earliest children's book under her name, though her periodical editing was anonymous. But although a number of women writers in various generations have chosen anonymity or obscurity, she is extraordinary in seeking...
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...
Textual Production Elizabeth Strickland
According to the British Library Catalogue (in 2007) ES published a book of stories for children, Prejudice Reproved; or, The History of the Negro Toy-Seller, 1826, jointly with her sisters Agnes and Catharine ...
Residence Elizabeth Strickland
Following the death of their father , it may be that ES was the architect of the plan that she and her sister Agnes should move from Reydon Hall in Suffolk to London to make...
Textual Production Catharine Parr Traill
Catharine Strickland, later CPT , published anonymously her first book for children, The Tell Tale: An Original Collection of Moral and Amusing Stories.
The British Library Catalogue (in 2007) attributes this text to Agnes Strickland

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