Grant, Anne. Memoirs of an American Lady. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808.
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Birth | Anne Grant | As a girl she wished for a little sister whom she could teach to enjoy Milton
. Grant, Anne. Memoirs of an American Lady. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808. 2: 153 |
Cultural formation | Lucy Hutton | She was born into the English professional class: its upper ranks, if the motto on her published title-page is a family one. As befitting her marriage to a clergyman, she was a strong member of... |
Cultural formation | Ephelia | If this was Ephelia, she grew up in an extremely wealthy, noble family and an incomparably privileged environment, with King James I
her honorary grandfather as well as her godfather, and with fine literature produced... |
Cultural formation | Frances Arabella Rowden | FAR
came from the English middle class. She was an Anglican
in religion. Mary Russell Mitford
represents her as a young teacher taking a relaxed attitude to religious ideas in literary contexts (her students were... |
Dedications | Hannah Cowley | One early performance drew bigger crowds than Drury Lane, although the rival theatre that night featured Sarah Siddons
on stage and the king and queen in the audience. More Ways Than One was published on... |
Education | L. M. Montgomery | LMM
saved enough money to attend Dalhousie University
in Halifax, Nova Scotia. for one year, 1895-1896, where her studies included Milton
and Carlyle
. She wrote for the school newspaper and joined a literary... |
Education | Frances Ridley Havergal | |
Education | Jane Johnson | She was without formal education. Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009. 162 Arizpe, Evelyn, Morag Styles, and Shirley Brice Heath. Reading Lessons from the Eighteenth Century: Mothers, Children and Texts. Pied Piper Publishing, 2006. 31 |
Education | Rose Tremain | At this stage of her life, Rosie's great interest and talent was not writing but painting, like her sister. She set out to make a huge, hanging, illustrated copy of Keats
's Ode to Autumn... |
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 | Toru Dutt | TD
and Aru
were briefly enrolled at a boarding school in Nice where they studied French. Rao, Raja, and Toru Dutt. “Aru and Toru”. Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan, Writers Workshop, 1972. |
Education | Pauline Johnson | |
Education | Kathleen Raine | KR
wrote that she grew up reading the Bible daily and memorising passages from it. Her mother could recite long passages from Milton
and other English poets, besides Scottish poems and ballads. She was glad... |
Education | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Because of her mother's early death, MBE
, she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893. 124 |
Education | Anne Carson | Following her passion for classics, AC
enrolled in St Michael's College at the University of Toronto
in 1968. However, for the first few years of her undergraduate degree she was not contented with her studies... |