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Family and Intimate relationships | Ellen Johnston | She stoutly rejects Goldsmith
's assertion that a woman who has stooped to folly can only die: I did not, however, feel inclined to die when I could no longer conceal what the world falsely... |
Education | Dorothy Whipple | As a small child DW
loved the Bible. She had a child's bible with illustrations, and was fascinated by stories of Christ's miracles (though a blind man took it badly when she proposed spitting... |
Education | Harriette Wilson | HW
's story of her education is one of tyranny and resistance. Her worst beating from her father was incurred for obstinacy. Her elder sister Jane (called Diana in her memoirs) was supposed to teach... |
Education | Roxburghe Lothian | Her mother began teaching her out of Goldsmith
's History of England (1764), started Elizabeth on the piano before she was five, and engaged a Swiss woman to teach her French, but found both her... |
Education | Anne Brontë | Their later reading drew on a selection of standard texts including Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England, Hannah More
's Moral Sketches, John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress, Isaac Watts
's Doctrine of... |
Education | Charlotte Brontë | Their education continued at home from a selection of standard texts including Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England, Hannah More
's Moral Sketches, John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress, Isaac Watts
's Doctrine... |
Education | Emily Brontë | Thereafter, Patrick Brontë
educated his remaining children at home, using standard educational texts including Thomas Salmon
's A New Geographical and Historical Grammar, a condensed version of Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England,... |
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