William Shirreff
, ES
' father, was a naval officer who rose to the position of rear admiral. He was said to be descended from the legendary French knight Bayard
.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.
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“Obituary: Miss Emily Shirreff”. Englishwoman’s Review, Vol.
28
, 1897, pp. 133-4.
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Textual Production
Sara Coleridge
SC
published a two-volume translation from Jacques de Mailles
's French: The Right Joyous and Pleasant History of the Feats, Gests, and Prowesses of the Chevalier Bayard
, etc. appeared.
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