| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Malorie Blackman | MB
was shaped by her reading outside school. She never entered a bookshop until she was fourteen, but relied on libraries. Early favourites were C. S. Lewis
's Narnia books, Johanna Spyri
's Heidi books... |
| Education | Jackie Kay | In her early years at school in Glasgow, JK
had problems with bullies who taunted her because of her skin colour. She retaliated privately by writing little poems of revenge. “Writer’s ’revenge’ on school bullies”. BBC News. |
| Education | Kate Clanchy | As a child KC
loved Victorian stories for girls—Frances Hodgson Burnett
's A Little Princess and The Secret Garden, Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
(or Susan Coolidge)'s What Katy Did, and Louisa May Alcott |
| Education | Virginia Woolf | Between 1 January and 30 June 1897, her reading included but was not limited to the following: Charlotte Brontë
, Lady Barlow
(a commentator on Charles Darwin
), Dinah Mulock Craik
, George Eliot
,... |
| Education | Mary Gawthorpe | Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre
in the LeedsSchool Board
offices. There MG
continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and... |
| Education | F. Tennyson Jesse | Though FTJ
did not receive much formal education, she read voraciously. Important discoveries were theBrontësisters
, Jane Austen
, and Constance Garnett
's translations of Tolstoy
. Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984. 33 |
| Education | Alice Meynell | In the summer of 1852 Elizabeth and Alice Thompson (later AM
) began their education under their father's instruction. Recording her daughters' lessons, Christiana Thompson writes, Dear little angels do their writing . .... |
| Education | Emilie Barrington | William Rathbone Greg
, a friend of EB
's father (and according to Martha Westwater
the inspiration for Charlotte Brontë
's Rochester), tutored all six Wilson sisters, paying attention in his teaching to the subject... |
| Education | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Her family's financial troubles prevented EJP
from receiving a formal or thorough education. In her own words, education was not within the reach of the gently born who were also poor, therefore I had little... |
| Education | Sue Townsend | ST
was eight before she learned to read but from then on, although she did poorly at school, she read with enthusiasm. After Richmal Crompton
(Just William) came Charlotte Brontë
: Jane Eyre... |
| Education | Sophia Jex-Blake | SJB
fervently pursued more knowledge, and travelled to Edinburgh in early 1862, where she was tutored in various subjects. Here she became enamoured of Charlotte BrontëJane Eyre, appreciating the novel for its grand steadfastness and... |
| Education | Jean Plaidy | Eleanor Alice Burford (later JP
) learned how to read at four years old: I do feel that books were my thing, right from the word go, she told an interviewer in 1991. Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, pp. 23 - 4. 23 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Taylor | MT
's father, Joshua Taylor
, came from a wool-trading family based in the West Riding of Yorkshire; he often travelled to the Continent on business and was fluent in French and Italian. He... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Brontë | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Taylor | MT
's mother, Anne (Tickell) Taylor
, has been described as a cold, Calvinistic chapel-goer Murray, Janet Horowitz, and Mary Taylor. “Introduction”. Miss Miles; or, A Tale of Yorkshire Life 60 Years Ago, Oxford University Press, 1990, p. vii - xxiv. viii Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Stevens, JoanEditor , Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1972. 4 |
