William Stevenson

EG 's father, William Stevenson , was a radical Unitarian from a seafaring family. He had trained in the ministry and worked as a classics teacher, but later rejected these occupations. He farmed unsuccessfully for...

EG was early encouraged in private writing. As a child she wrote exuberant letters full of stories to her family and friends, informal travel writings, and when she was in her teens her brother and...

The title-page of Clarinda Cathcart quotes from the poems of Stephenson (probably the recently-published William Stevenson , though just possibly Matthew Stevenson , whose poems dated from a century back, or even some poet who...