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
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
Textual Production Catharine Parr Traill
With or without sisterly collaboration, Catharine Strickland, later CPT , published a children's story as Prejudice Reproved; or, the History of the Negro Toy-Seller, as the author of The Telltale, Reformation, Disobedience, Early Lessons...
Textual Production Catharine Parr Traill
Catharine Strickland, later CPT , published another book for children: The Keepsake Guineas; or, The Best Use of Money, as by the author of The Juvenile Forget-me-not, Tell-Tale, Tales of the School, &c.
The...
Textual Production Catharine Parr Traill
CPT finished the manuscript for Canadian Crusoes and quickly sent it to England so that her sistersJane Margaret Strickland could find a publisher.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking.
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Author summary Catharine Parr Traill
CPT , sister of the writers Elizabeth and Agnes Strickland and Susanna Moodie , is best known for her naturalist writing about nineteenth-century Upper Canada. She was a letter-writer widely respected and eventually rewarded for...
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.
5, 212
Wealth and Poverty Catharine Parr Traill
CPT had never made much from writing, and though she had inherited some money after the deaths of family members, she unwisely invested in a firm that went bankrupt. At the age of ninety-five she...
Publishing Catharine Parr Traill
Agnes Strickland and her sister Jane edited letters that CPT had been sending back to England, and sent the manuscript to London publisher Charles Knight.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking.
115
Textual Features Catharine Parr Traill
Her sister Agnes Strickland moved slowly, so the book did not come out until 1852. The story, peppered with scientific lore on Canadian nature, features two children who are half-French and half-Scottish and a third...
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...
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.
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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...

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.