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,
qtd. in
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
198
a demographic that would not compete with the market sought by the Literary Garland, which continued to pay for...
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...
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, 1999.
190-1
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...
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...

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