Brown, Jeremy K. Ursula K. Le Guin. Chelsea House.
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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. 104-5 |
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. 1: 118 |
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 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 | 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 | 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. 8 |
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. 12-13 |
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... |
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. 19 Marnham, Patrick. Wild Mary: the Life of Mary Wesley. Chatto and Windus. 127 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Herberts | Further disconnected tales accumulate, one contrasting two priests, Father Coeurdroit (or Goodheart), who serves the poor rather than the Church, and Father Predatore, whose name is self-explanatory. The flow is finally interrupted by Proteus placing... |
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. 7 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Craik | The title-page quotes Virgil
. The preface relates how while staying with a friend in the north the author discovered an ancient manuscript, much torn and defaced in a trunk in a garret. Craik, Helen. Henry of Northumberland. William Lane. 1: xi |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Irwin | AI
praises both her father
and his estate, the baroque mansion and landscaped grounds recently completed to the designs of Sir John Vanbrugh
. Carlisle appears as a practitioner of ideal gentlemanly retirement: having... |