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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... |
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 |
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 | Anne Francis | |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Scott | The poem, appropriately, is written in heroic couplets. Its opening boldly echoes Virgil
only to distance itself from the project of the Aeneid: Arms and the men for deeds of arms renown'd .... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Eliza Bleecker | She used the writing of the pastoral to build a relationship with Tomhanick, Americanizing the topographical tradition to create a suitable backdrop for the life of a poet. Her work includes meditations on death... |