Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury.
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Family and Intimate relationships | May Edginton | Francis Baily
was a novelist and one-time editor of Royal Magazine. It was in the context of the magazine that they met, as ME
was one of its contributors. Baily was the author from... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | Blessington's past made her notorious, as did her continuing association with Count D'Orsay
. Her biographer J. Fitzgerald Molloy
claims there was no foundation to the rumours that the two were lovers; editor Ernest J. Lovell |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Ottoline Morrell | After the widowed Mrs Bentinck's stepson |
Education | Isabella Banks | Her education was supplemented both by a good home library and by her parents' wide cultural circle. She led a lively social life in Manchester, attending Anti-Corn Law League bazaars, and soirées at the Manchester Athenæum |
Education | Stella Gibbons | SG
learned to read fairly late, but then read voraciously. The glowing Eastern landscapes and brilliant figures Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury. 20 |
Education | Agatha Christie | 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 |
Cultural formation | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | Her family were British members of prosperous, successful Jewry. In 1884 D'Israeli
had only been dead four years and tolerance was very much the order of the day. So that anti-semitism was at a very... |
Cultural formation | L. E. L. | There are indications, however, that a rather suspect class standing contributed along with somewhat bohemian behaviour to the difficulty she had about weathering scandal. Benjamin Disraeli
famously and snobbishly wrote of a party at the |
Characters | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | It opens with a Notice attacking her critics, the same gang of male and female Infamies employed before by the great Literary Bombastes. Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Very Successful!. Whitaker. preface |
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