Elizabeth Strickland

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Standard Name: Strickland, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Strickland
Used Form: Eliza Strickland
ES published her earliest children's book under her name, though her periodical editing was anonymous. But although a number of women writers in various generations have chosen anonymity or obscurity, she is extraordinary in seeking to remain hidden when volumes of hers were appearing to great acclaim with her younger sister's name on them. She was content to work in collaboration with Agnes on these works of historical biography, scholarship, and editing, and to see the credit going entirely to Agnes. Even in the early twenty-first century the British Library Catalogue did not list most of her collaborative works under her name.

Connections

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Travel Agnes Strickland
Elizabeth and AS crossed from Southampton to Le Havre on the first leg of a Continental research trip.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
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Travel Agnes Strickland
In the summer of 1850 AS was in Scotland, not doing research but hunting royal relics. In fact, once Blackwell became her publisher, she made frequent visits to Edinburgh. She made her own...
Textual Production Catharine Parr Traill
Catharine Strickland, later CPT , published another book of didactic stories for children: Reformation; or, The Cousins.
The Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume 99, attributes to her Disobedience; or, Mind What Mamma Says...
Textual Production Catharine Parr Traill
With or without sisterly collaboration, Catharine Strickland, later CPT , published a children's story as Prejudice Reproved; or, the History of the Negro Toy-Seller, as the author of The Telltale, Reformation, Disobedience, Early Lessons...
Textual Production Antonia Fraser
In Boadicea's Chariot: The Warrior Queens, AF engaged with modern gender analysis while also catering to the taste for books about woman rulers (a taste which has lasted from Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland to...
Textual Production Catherine Hutton
It seems probable that this project was sparked by Mary Hays 's biographical dictionary of women, Memoirs of Queens, Illustrious and Celebrated, which was published, incomplete, in summer 1821.
It was still at least...
Textual Production Agnes Strickland
Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland , in Lives of the Bachelor Kings of England (bearing, as usual, only Agnes's name), turned to a royal group whom their researches had not yet touched.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
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Textual Production Agnes Strickland
Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland (the latter, as usual, not credited on the title page) turned to a more esoteric subject in their The Lives of the Seven Bishops Committed to the Tower in 1688...
Textual Production Agnes Strickland
Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland published the last of their unacknowledged collaborations, Lives of the Tudor Princesses, in Agnes's name only.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Textual Production Susanna Moodie
Susanna Moodie published her personal narrative Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada, dedicated to her sister Agnes Strickland , Author of the Lives of the Queens of England.
Moodie, Susanna, and Susan Glickman. Roughing It in the Bush. McClelland and Stewart.
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In...
Textual Production Agnes Strickland
AS published Lives of the Last Four Princesses of the Royal House of Stuart, this time without her sister 's participation.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Textual Features George Eliot
The white neck-cloth species, exemplified by Caroline Scott 's The Old Grey Church, is both upper-class and fervently Evangelical in setting: a kind of genteel tract on a large scale, intended as a sort...
Residence Agnes Strickland
After their father's death the eldest Strickland sister, Elizabeth , moved from Reydon Hall to London; Agnes followed her by degrees, by visits at first.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
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Publishing Agnes Strickland
The most famous of AS 's works appeared in twelve successive volumes: Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest, co-written with her sister Elizabeth but bearing her name alone. The first...
Publishing Agnes Strickland
AS followed her lives of English queens with Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain (again with her sister Elizabeth as invisible collaborator).
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
210
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

Timeline

By 2 August 1856: Jane Margaret Strickland published a novel,...

Women writers item

By 2 August 1856

Jane Margaret Strickland published a novel, Adonijah, a tale of the Jewish Dispersion; it was shortly attacked by George Eliot in Silly Novels by Lady Novelists as one of the deplorable types of fiction...

Texts

Strickland, Elizabeth. Disobedience; or, Mind What Mamma Says. James Woodhouse, 1819.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland, editors. Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots. H. Colburn, 1842.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland. Lives of the Bachelor Kings of England. Simpkin, Marshall, 1861.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. H. Colburn, 1840.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. G. Barrie, 1902.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland. Lives of the Queens of Scotland. W. Blackwood, 1859.
Strickland, Agnes. Lives of the Tudor Princesses. Editor Strickland, Elizabeth, Longman’s, Green, 1868.
Strickland, Agnes et al. Prejudice Reproved; or, The History of the Negro Toy-Seller. Harvey and Darton, 1826.
Moodie, Susanna, and Elizabeth Strickland. The Little Prisoner; or, Passion and Patience; and, Amendment; or, Charles Grant and his Sister. Dean and Munday, 1828.
Strickland, Agnes, and Elizabeth Strickland. The Lives of the Seven Bishops Committed to the Tower in 1688. Bell and Daldy, 1866.