Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. Maclaren.
72, 79
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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... |
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. 72, 79 |
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... |
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. Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge. 282 |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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