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Education | Eliza Fletcher | Grandmother Brudend and a paternal aunt educated Eliza with poetry and stories. The letters of Elizabeth Singer Rowe
were important in her reading. It was said, however, that her grandmother over-encouraged her in precocious display... |
Education | Mary Catherine Hume | Together they carefully studied the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg
and she was deeply influenced by Tulk's philosophy. They also read and studied Shakespeare
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Education | Carola Oman | The children's great delight was their mother reading aloud: theLamb
s' Tales from Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott
's poems, William Edmonstoune Aytoun
's Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, 1865, Mary Martha Sherwood |
Education | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Mary Howitt
, a friend of the Smith family, wrote approvingly of Benjamin Leigh Smith's unorthodox methods of childrearing: Objecting to schools he keeps his children at home, and their knowledge is gained by reading... |
Education | Anna Brownell Jameson | Anna was educated by Miss Yokeley
, a governess, who taught her French. After the departure of Miss Yokeley, some time between 1803 and 1806, Anna acted as governess to her sisters. She also taught... |
Education | Margery Allingham | MA
was a fluent reader and writer by the time she was seven years old. Thorogood, Julia. Margery Allingham: A Biography. Heinmann. 25 |
Education | Frances Ridley Havergal | |
Education | Constance Smedley | With her sister, CS
began her education at home with her mother as teacher. She read Shakespeare
at four years old, and later learned the violin. She and Ida were concert-goers from an early age... |
Education | Iris Tree | In her early childhood, she read Andrew Lang
's fairy tales, and particularly his Brown Fairy Book (1904). She learned history from the plays of Shakespeare
, with which she became familiar in her many... |
Education | Pearl S. Buck | |
Education | Anne Manning | AM
was taught at home by both her mother and her father, with the help of masters for special accomplishments, Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett. 211 |
Education | Frances Reynolds | |
Education | Christina Stead | CS
's father
would have liked to have her education entirely in his own hands. The first books to be her favourites were the works of W. T. Stead
, and fairy stories by the... |
Education | Mary Agnes Hamilton | |
Education | Mrs F. C. Patrick | She must have been well educated. She has a good grasp of history and politics, and of canonical English fiction from Richardson
to her own most respected immediate female predecessors. She took a wry interest... |
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