Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009.
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sara Coleridge | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Drabble | The protagonist of The Seven Sisters, published in 2002, is a woman in her fifties whose husband and grown children have all abandoned her. Her own somewhat grumpy impressions of her newly single life... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Templeton | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Mackenzie | Dryden
's Virgil
translation supplies an epigraph for the title-page. An authorial Advertisement, apologetic in tone, says the book will be realistic, moral, and well-intentioned. Louisa Jenkins writes the first letter while staying with her... |