Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Connections
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Education | George Eliot | Her devotion to John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress remained unchanged during this period. She also read heavyweight works of theology, Hannah More
's letters, and a life of William Wilberforce
. By late 1838, however... |
Education | Margaret Holford | The younger Margaret was taught at home, and became a precocious and devoted reader of Shakespeare
and others. Her appetite for all kinds of literature was said to be insatiable. |
Education | Anne Ridler | She lived in a King's College hostel in Queensborough Terrace near Hyde Park,London. The course included lectures on history and literature. The distinguished scholar Jack Isaacs
lectured on Shakespeare
, Donne
, and Milton |
Education | Elizabeth Jenkins | Then, during the years 1924-7, EJ
studied at Newnham College, Cambridge
. She realised the value of this education at the time, but not so profoundly as she did later. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson. 18 |
Education | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
learned a lot in the library of her maternal grandfather, whose books, she says, were mostly [Henry] Irving
's rejects. Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner. 66 |
Education | Joan Riley | As a young child in Jamaica, JR
says she found escape from the harsh realities of her life on the shelves of the local library. Reading whatever was available, she ranged from Shakespeare
to... |
Education | Augusta Gregory | AG
and her sisters received little formal education; their lessons took second place to their brothers'. McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525. xiii |
Education | Andrea Levy | AL
attended Highbury Hill Grammar School
, where she studied the Victorians on her history syllabus and Shakespeare
and the Metaphysical poets for A-level English (an exam which, she says, she nearly failed). She got... |
Education | Emily Hickey | She demonstrated an early interest in reading. Scott
, Tennyson
, and Barrett Browning
numbered among her early favourites. Her father, however, did not allow her to read Shakespeare
, as he was repelled by... |
Education | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Her education under her next governess, Squidge (an Austrian called Miss Fraulein by everyone but Cynthia), was a quite different matter: Beauman writes that Squidge had a heart but no mind. Nevertheless, by sixteen Cynthia... |
Education | Rhoda Broughton | She was taught at home by her father. He encouraged her to read widely, introduced her to English poetry and Shakespeare
, and taught her Latin and Greek. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Frances Horovitz | As a sixth-form student, she went on a class trip to Italy, where she was introduced to the art of the Renaissance. Shakespeare
was another important discovery. Her class also took trips to the... |
Education | Ngaio Marsh | She enjoyed her years here much more than at her first school. It was here that she became quite fervently religious for a while, though neither of her parents shared her intense belief. The school... |
Education | Louisa Baldwin | Following her marriage, she studied German, French, and Italian, as well as the works of Shakespeare
and the novels of George Eliot
. Taylor, Ina. Victorian Sisters. Adler and Adler. 114-15, 127 |
Education | Jan Struther | JS
was educated privately in London, going to classes held in a private home. She hated history and geography but loved literature. Her teacher, Miss Moseley, took the children through Shakespeare
before she began... |
Timeline
7 June 1810: William Charles Macready (son of an actress...
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7 June 1810
William Charles Macready
(son of an actress and an actor-manager) began his successful acting career as Romeo in a performance in Birmingham; he became a specialist in Shakespeare
an roles.
August 1811: Francis Jeffrey wrote in the Edinburgh Review...
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August 1811
Francis Jeffrey
wrote in the Edinburgh Review that for real force and originality of genius the age of Shakespeare
outranked various other famous ages in cultural history, including the Augustan.
1818: William Hazlitt published A View of the English...
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1818
William Hazlitt
published A View of the English Stage.
By April 1818: Thomas Bowdler published The Family Shakespeare,...
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By April 1818
Thomas Bowdler
published The Family Shakespeare, in fact a further extension of a project begun by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler
.
1835: Helen Faucit made her first important acting...
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1835
Helen Faucit
made her first important acting appearance at the Covent Garden
Theatre, aged eighteen.
1861: A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued...
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1861
A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued what seems to be the earliest version of a game called Authors, whose object was to collect sets of cards bearing the names of writers and the...
1864: Henry George Bohn published A Bibliographical...
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1864
Henry George Bohn
published A Bibliographical Account of the Works of Shakespeare.
1870: Artist Richard Doyle published, with a poem...
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1870
Artist Richard Doyle
published, with a poem by William Allingham
, a collection of exquisitely detailed and coloured plates called In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World.
By 12 June 1880: Irish writer Nina Kennard published the first...
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By 12 June 1880
Irish writer Nina Kennard
published the first of her rather wooden novels, There's Rue for You.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
1885: Actress Helen Faucit (who had become Lady...
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1885
Actress Helen Faucit
(who had become Lady Martin when her husband was knighted in 1880) published On Some of Shakespeare
's Female Characters, a collection of essays that first appeared in Blackwood's.
1893: Vale Press was founded as a printing house...
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1893
Vale Press
was founded as a printing house in Chelsea, London, by Charles De Sousy Ricketts
; its first two books were published by John Lane
.
6 June 1904: A. H. Bullen founded the Shakespeare Head...
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6 June 1904
A. H. Bullen
founded the Shakespeare Head Press
at 21 Chapel Street, Stratford upon Avon, two doors away from New Place, Stratford upon Avon, the house which Shakespeare
bought in 1597.
1906: Tolstoy on Shakespeare, which included a...
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1906
Tolstoy
on Shakespeare, which included a translation of Tolstoy
by Isabella Fyvie Mayo
as I. F. M., and Vladimir Grigorevich Chertkov
as V. Tchertkoff (as well as an essay by George Bernard Shaw
), was published.
February 1906: Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's...
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February 1906
Publisher J. M. Dent
launched Everyman's Library, aiming to reprint
1,000 classic titles: the first year's 155 volumes included Æschylus
, Shakespeare
, Jane Austen
practically complete, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell.
169
19 May 1908: A campaign to establish a National Theatre...
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19 May 1908
A campaign to establish a National Theatre
began with a mass meeting at the Lyceum Theatre
, London.
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