Barber, Mary, Jonathan Swift, and Constantia Grierson. Poems on Several Occasions. C. Rivington, 1734.
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Anthologization | Sarah, Lady Pennington | An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters quickly became a staple of composite volumes directed toward young women's conduct. At Edinburgh a volume of this kind, Instructions for a Young Lady, in every sphere... |
Dedications | Mary Barber | Swift
dated his dedication of MB
's Poems, written on her behalf, to Lord Orrery
. Barber, Mary, Jonathan Swift, and Constantia Grierson. Poems on Several Occasions. C. Rivington, 1734. iii-vii |
Education | Caroline Clive | CC
's education took place at home. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Education | Linda Villari | During the time she spent at her great-aunt's house in Croydon, LV
's novel suggests she was taught at home by a family governess, a close friend of her mother, identified there as Miss... |
Education | Frances Reynolds | |
Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |
Education | Alice Walker | On her own the child AW
was always reading. At eight she identified in someone else's house a photograph of Booker T. Washington
—and asked, Why don't you give it to me, please? White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004. 31 |
Education | Dorothy Wellesley | She also furthered her own education by early-morning visits to the library, sometimes permitted though sometimes stopped, during which she read everything I could lay hands on, including Tennyson
, Matthew Arnold
, Swift
's... |
Education | William Congreve | WC
attended Trinity College
, Dublin, where he was a fellow-student of Swift
. Back in England he became a law student at the Middle Temple
, but soon drifted away from the law towards a literary life. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Plath | At Cambridge she met Ted Hughes
, a British poet and fellow-student: his first passionate note to her is dated March 1956. In later letters he used an insistent baby-talk perhaps modelled on the Journal... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Griffith | Her father, Thomas Griffith
, was an actor, and manager of Smock Alley Theatre
(the Theatre Royal) in Dublin. He became Master of the Revels in Ireland in 1729 and opened a new Dublin theatre... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Cassandra, Lady Hawke | The future CLH
's father, Sir Edward Turner
, had the distinction of being called by Swiftfriend of Apollo and the Muses. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hélène Barcynska | In her first book of autobiography, HB
always calls Evans the man. Naomi Royde-Smith
thought him the most savage satirist since Swift
. HB
at once quarrelled with Leslie about him. The day after... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Lennox | William Tisdall
, maternal uncle of CL
, had sometimes enjoyed Swift
's confidence (if not much of his respect) and had once hoped to marry Esther Johnson
(Swift's Stella). Carlile, Susan. “Expanding the Feminine: Reconsidering Charlotte Lennox’s Age and The Life of Harriot Stuart”. Eighteenth-Century Novel, edited by Albert J. Rivero and George Justice, pp. 103 - 37. 110 Glendinning, Victoria. Jonathan Swift. Hutchinson, 1998. 66-7, 70 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Richardson |