Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Elizabeth Taylor | Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009. 12-13 |
Education | Lady Arbella Stuart | LAS
had a varied upbringing, living in the households of Bess of Hardwick, Mary Queen of Scots, and her aunt and uncle Mary and Gilbert Talbot. Before she was eight she was betrothed for the... |
Education | Charlotte Guest | Lady Charlotte received a standard home education. She soon found that she loved serious learning and set out to pursue it. Studying on her own, she discovered and devoured Chaucer
(from whom as an old... |
Education | Mary Somerville | The summer Mary was thirteen she lived at Jedburgh and there, from her Liberal uncle Thomas Somerville
, found her first significant intellectual encouragement: for the first time in my life, I met .... |
Education | Harriette Wilson | While she was still in her teens, although engaged in her second paid sexual relationship, her lover Frederic Lamb
set out to get her reading Milton
, Shakespeare
, Byron
, theRambler, Virgil |
Education | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | In the house of an aunt she was surprised to find novels (particularly those of Richardson
) a topic of conversation, Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Editor Hankin, Christiana C., Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858, 2 vols. 1: 118 |
Education | Jane Welsh Carlyle | JWC
's Latin lessons began at the age of four, and by the time she was nine she was studying Virgil
. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986. 8 |
Education | Isabella Whitney | |
Education | Ursula K. Le Guin | UKLG
learned Latin in her seventies in order to write a novel with connections to the Aeneid by Virgil
. Brown, Jeremy K. Ursula K. Le Guin. Chelsea House, 2011. 104-5 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sara Coleridge | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Wesley | In wartime London in 1944 she met journalist, linguist, and playwright Eric Siepmann
. Wright, Daphne. “Mary Wesley”. Guardian Weekly, 1 Jan. 2003. 19 Marnham, Patrick. Wild Mary: the Life of Mary Wesley. Chatto and Windus, 2006. 127 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ursula K. Le Guin | The first part of the novel relates, with a somewhat different focus, the tale told by Virgil
(in which Lavinia is a non-speaking character); the second reaches beyond that stage of the story. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Collier | Perhaps JC
's most pressing concern here is with women's issues: Women live most part of their lives in the office of Nursing, either Parents Husbands or Children. Collier, Jane et al. Common Place Book. 1748–1755. 7 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sally Purcell | SP
's masterful use of early writers and mythical belief-systems is exemplified in Seven Horizon Poems. Each of the poems snatches a separate grain of meaning, pressing into service to do so a wide... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester | The title-page quotes from Sir Francis Bacon
, Virgil
, and Sir Roger L'Estrange
. A preface (written in the third person as he) argues that physiognomy has something in it but deplores the... |