William Makepeace Thackeray

After her mother died she was sent to a boarding school at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire (which she later remembered, perhaps snobbishly, for the lack of good company). By one means or the other she...

After this she completed her education at home. Although even in this context she says, I was not well educated, for I never would learn, she also described herself as having always been from...

TD and Aru were briefly enrolled at a boarding school in Nice where they studied French. After moving to England they continued their studies and attended the Higher Lectures for Women series begun by Henry Sidgwick

Between 1 January and 30 June 1897, her reading included but was not limited to the following: Charlotte Brontë , Lady Barlow (a commentator on Charles Darwin ), Dinah Mulock Craik , George Eliot ,...

It is discreetly dedicated (by her initials) to Jane Brookfield , mistress of Thackeray . It was soon translated into Dutch, and published in the USA both at New York and at Philadelphia...

Biographers have tended to adopt Robert Browning's scornful skepticism of the spiritualist movement, but it was not a fringe phenomenon. EBB was, historian Alex Owen argues, characteristic of those attracted to spiritualism by its deeply...

ES 's first play for children (based on a famous Victorian story), Thackeray 's Rose and the Ring, Dramatised in two acts, appeared in the anthology Plays for Schools, from her brother 's firm Sidgwick and Jackson .