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, 1990.
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
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Agnes Strickland | |
| Travel | Agnes Strickland | |
| 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. Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940. 21-2 |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Porter | The Porters' mother lived a busy social life on limited means, and JP
kept up this tradition. Sir Walter Scott
was an early friend. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 265 |
| Occupation | Jane Porter | JP
discovered in Russia some unpublished letters of Mary Queen of Scots
, which she transcribed, and sent to her friends Agnes
and Elizabeth Strickland
for their edition. Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940. 112-13 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jean Plaidy | The following eighty or so novels that she wrote under this pseudonym garnered her a wide following. Even before becoming Jean Plaidy she had studied the business aspect of authorship and had learned that whatever... |
| 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, 1989. v |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Moodie | Among SM
's five sisters, four became writers: Eliza or Elizabeth Strickland
, Agnes Strickland
(whose Lives of the Queens of England and other books were co-written with Elizabeth but bore her name alone), Jane Strickland |
| Instructor | Susanna Moodie | |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | HM
liked this the best of all her works. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995. 1: 103 |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | Eliza Lynn met a number of women authors who were once applauded but later complacently forgotten . . . . as literary fossils. Linton, Eliza Lynn, and Beatrice Harraden. My Literary Life. Hodder and Stoughton, 1899. 85 |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Howitt | In 1851 MH
edited an illustrated volume of Biographical Sketches of the Queens of Great Britain from the Norman Conquest to The Reign of Victoria; or, Royal Book of Beauty; this followed in the... |
| Education | Elinor Glyn | |
| Textual Production | Antonia Fraser |
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