Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From an Island: A Story and Some Essays. B. Tauchnitz.
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Anthologization | Felicia Hemans | |
Cultural formation | Hannah Cullwick | To all eyes she lived as Munby's servant; she often still slept in the basement kitchen. In the evenings, however, she played the role of a lady wife, sitting with Munby in the parlour, conversing... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
Dedications | Emily Faithfull | The most important publication of the Victoria Press
to the history of women's printing and publishing is undoubtedly The Victoria Regia (1861). This literary gift book, edited by Adelaide Procter
and dedicated by permission to... |
Dedications | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | The volume is dedicated to Tennyson
and his wife Emily
. Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From an Island: A Story and Some Essays. B. Tauchnitz. prelims |
Education | Elizabeth Charles | EC
was educated by governesses and tutors at home. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Charles, Elizabeth. Our Seven Homes. Editor Davidson, Mary, John Murray. 52-4 |
Education | Carola Oman | CO
badly wanted to go to boarding-school, and Cheltenham Ladies' College
was suggested, but her mother decided against it. Carola later felt that this had been a good thing, since the emphasis on sport (which... |
Education | Pauline Johnson | |
Education | Ruth Padel | She found school work (at Byron House school in Highgate and then at the highly academic North London Collegiate
) difficult. She always got an A for English essays, although she would write a short... |
Education | Emily Hickey | She demonstrated an early interest in reading. Scott
, Tennyson
, and Barrett Browning
numbered among her early favourites. Her father, however, did not allow her to read Shakespeare
, as he was repelled by... |
Education | Rudyard Kipling | Even during the years of the detested Southsea school RK
was developing an appreciation for literature. He writes of being surprised when reading (something Mrs Holloway
forced him to do under threat of punishment) turned... |
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 | Winifred Peck | WP
's next school was one run at Eastbourne by a Miss Quill, and which she and her sister attended as day-girls. The school was selected by the great-aunt to whose house they were sent... |
Education | Elinor Glyn | As a girl, the future EG
loved to hear Tennyson
's poetry, especially the Idylls of the King (published from 1859), many of which she learned by heart. She also adored George MacDonald
's The... |
Education | Denise Levertov | DL
never went to school, but was educated at home by her mother up to the age of twelve. She then began ballet lessons (for which she had a passion, but which caused her to... |