qtd. in
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.
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Birth | Iza Duffus Hardy | IDH
was born at Addlestone in Surrey (near Weybridge), the only (or at least the only surviving) child of writer Mary Anne Duffus Hardy
. Some sources give her date of birth as around... |
Birth | Dorothea Gerard | DG
was born at New Monkland in Lanarkshire, Scotland, not far from Glasgow, the youngest but one in a family of seven in which three boys preceded four girls. Memoirist Helen C. Black |
Cultural formation | Helen Mathers | Descriptions of her childhood in Helen Black
's Notable Women Authors of the Day indicate that she came from a comfortable English family in the gentry or upper middle class. Her father called himself a... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Grand | Although SG
was born in Ireland, her parents were English, stemming from propertied and professional families respectively. Memoirist Helen C. Black
described her as coming alike on each side from a race of artistic... |
Education | Sarah Grand | SG
continued to teach herself throughout her life, mostly by reading on various subjects. Helen C. Black
writes that SG
particularly enjoyed non-fiction, such as natural history, physiology and other quasi-scientific subjects. qtd. in Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000. 282 |
Education | Emily Gerard | During her teens EG
was sent to a large, Catholic, Swiss boarding-school, the Convent of the Sacré Coeur at Riedenburg near Bregenz on Lake Constance in Austria, with Princesses Marguerite and Alix, daughters of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Mathers | Helen Black
, having interviewed HM
at her home in Grosvenor Street, London, described her as essentially a domestic woman who gave the impression that her career was little more than a hobby. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. Maclaren, 1906. 72, 79 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iza Duffus Hardy | Thomas Duffus Hardy
, later Sir Thomas, a civil servant and Deputy Keeper of Her Majesty's Records, was IDH
's father. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Longman, 1988. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Riddell | Some sources say that Ellen Kilshaw
was of Scots descent, but CR
clearly says her mother was English. Ellen was noted for her beauty, grace, and accomplishment. Past seventy and taking an elegiac tone in... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Anne Duffus Hardy | MADH
moved in London society all her life and had many literary friends and acquaintances. Helen Black
mentions her shelves of autograph copies of her friends' books, particularly those by S. C. Hall
and Anna Maria Hall |
Health | Helen Mathers | As a result of being placed in a class of girls much older than herself, HM
apparently worked so hard that quite suddenly her health broke down, Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. Maclaren, 1906. 74 |
Leisure and Society | Helen Mathers | In the prime of her career, HM
was an active member of fashionable society. According to Ludgate Monthly in November 1892, she was frequently seen at the various functions indispensible to Vanity Fair [though] she... |
Leisure and Society | Rhoda Broughton | RB
was fond of dogs, and in her Oxford days was known for her habit of striding about the town followed by at least two (and usually more) pugdogs. Sadleir, Michael. Things Past. Constable, 1944. 92 |
Leisure and Society | Iza Duffus Hardy | IDH
was, said Helen Black
, as much at home with the needle as with the pen. A large patchwork coverlet of her workmanship was displayed on the couch in the living-room of the maisonette... |
Leisure and Society | Eliza Lynn Linton | ELL
liked to give a helping hand to young writers. She particularly favoured the novelist Beatrice Harraden
(more than forty years her junior, and just the kind of new woman whom Linton might have been... |
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