Grant, Anne. Memoirs of an American Lady. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme.
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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. 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 | 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... |
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... |
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 | 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. 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... |
Education | Sarah Josepha Hale | |
Education | Zora Neale Hurston | She also worked at the beginnings of her education. When she happened upon Milton
's Paradise Lost she devoured it, and she learned Gray
's Elegy in a Country Churchyard by heart in the course... |
Education | Frances Reynolds | |
Education | Mary Gawthorpe | Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre
in the LeedsSchool Board
offices. There MG
continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and... |
Education | Helen Waddell | She attended the Victoria School for Girls
in Belfast from 1900, then took a year of private study from 1907 to 1908 before going on to read English (with Latin and French) at Queen's University, Belfast |
Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |
Education | Janet Hamilton | She attributed her power of language and ability for composition to reading the works of good authors, Hamilton, Janet. Poems, Essays, and Sketches. James Maclehose. viii |
Education | Maria Riddell | The future MR
was in all probability privately educated. At sixteen she wrote a poem to commemorate the pleasure of reading with a friend the works of Milton
, Pope
, Spenser
, Shakespeare
... |