Selina Trimmer

Lady Caroline's upbringing was—by the standards of her class—advanced, eccentric or bohemian, though she must have exaggerated when she told Sydney Morgan that she was so neglected in her education, she could not write at...

Eventually Lady Elizabeth's illegitimate children, so unceremoniously disposed of as babies, were brought back to England to be educated (by Selina , daughter of Sarah Trimmer ) together with Georgiana's cossetted offspring. The two Irish...

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, hired as governess to her children Sarah Trimmer 's daughter Selina . As might have been expected, Selina felt her position required her (with the support of Georgiana's mother) to try...

Their second daughter, Sarah known as Selina , taught the younger ones and also some neighbour children. She later worked for as governess in the household of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , and later...

LCL was for most of her adult life a good friend of Sydney Morgan , to whom she confided many stories of her childhood and youth, which Morgan preserved in her diaries. She later helped...

Her book did well. Many clergy, many parents of girls in the Hans Place school, many relations of the author and of her dedicatee subscribed, plus Elizabeth Gunning , Richard Brinsley Sheridan , and Sarah Trimmer

As a child denied education, LCL could write poetry when it was said she could neither read nor spell. This was an exaggeration, for her juvenile poetry is a delight in its sharpness...

She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation...