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Family and Intimate relationships | Githa Sowerby | Githa's mother, born Amy Margaret Hewison, was a corn-merchant's daughter, and heiress to a fortune bringing in nine hundred pounds a year. Riley, Patricia. Looking for Githa. New Writing North. 27 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lucy Knox | Her father, the Hon. Stephen Edmond Spring Rice
, forged lifelong friendships with Alfred Tennyson
, Thomas Carlyle
, and Edward FitzGerald
during his years at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School
and Trinity College, Cambridge |
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... |
Education | Florence Dixie | Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary... |
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 | Jean Ingelow | In later years she expanded her reading to include Shakespeare
, Southey
, Scott
, Wordsworth
, and Tennyson
. She also read Henry Drummond
's Natural Law in the Spiritual World and hisTropical Africa and Charles Lamb
's Letters. Some Recollections of Jean Ingelow and Her Early Friends. Kennikat Press. 150-1 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Peters, Maureen. Jean Ingelow: Victorian Poetess. Boydell. 23 |
Education | Blanche Warre Cornish | Blanche and her family made a cult of Tennyson
, whom they visited at his home. MacCarthy, Mary. A Nineteenth-Century Childhood. Constable. 17-18 |
Education | Penelope Lively | Initially learning at home, Penelope became well versed in the Authorised Version, tales of Greece and Rome, The Arabian Nights and not much else. Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Grove Press. 71 |
Education | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it... |
Education | Adrienne Rich | The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family... |
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 | Pauline Johnson | |
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 | 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... |
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