Jules Verne

By the time Agatha was born, Clara Miller believed that girls ought not to learn to read before the age of eight. Defiantly, Agatha taught herself to read at five. She eagerly devoured Lewis Carroll

As a child she had already met several distinguished writers in England, and Mary Clarke Mohl and Turgenev in France. As a young adult she quickly became known to many eminent members of the...

Ursula K. Le Guin, reviewing, noted the rarity of individual characters of some complexity in satire (even Atwood's own satire), and therefore particularly welcomed the female characters here as real people, but heartbreaking ones...

A lifelong Francophile, FSH supplemented her income through translations of twenty-seven French and Italian texts, seven in collaboration with John Lillie . During the 1870's and 1880's she produced an average of more than one...

This book deals very largely with her French extended family, her visits to France as a young adult, and her French social circles. She meant it to dispel certain false ideas, English rather than American...