Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
1: 103
Its reception by others was predictably mixed. In the Unitarian Prospective Review, John James Tayler
praised its descriptive eloquence, noted the strong censure...
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...
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...
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discovered in Russia some unpublished letters of Mary Queen of Scots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
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...
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...
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
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...
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
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 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...
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 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
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...
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
...
