Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
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Education | Anna Seward | Anna's education was largely overseen by her parents. Before she was three she could recite passages from Milton
's L'Allegro and by nine the first three books of Paradise Lost. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 8 She was later... |
Education | Joanna Baillie | From the age of ten she went to a boarding school in Glasgow which specialised in transforming healthy little hoydens into perfect little ladies. Witchcraft by Joanna Baillie. Finborough Theatre. |
Education | Emily Brontë | Thereafter, Patrick Brontë
educated his remaining children at home, using standard educational texts including Thomas Salmon
's A New Geographical and Historical Grammar, a condensed version of Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England,... |
Education | Edna St Vincent Millay | Three years after her highschool graduation, doors suddenly opened for ESVM
to go to college, although her preparation had not reached the standard generally demanded. Donors offered to support her at Vassar College
(through Caroline B. Dow |
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 | Brigid Brophy | BB
's education (disrupted by the second war) included attending a state school (coeducational) and private schools both boys', girls', and mixed-sex. She was intellectually precocious at every stage. As a little girl at the... |
Education | Florence Dixie | Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary... |
Education | Christian Milne | So keen was the child on her school-learned skills that she kept a piece of broken slate Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Letters from the North Highlands, During the Summer 1816. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 58 |
Education | Tabitha Tenney | Whether or not TT
's education was Puritanical (most sources about her life have no higher status than gossip) she was well read in the emergent canon of English literature, from Shakespeare
and Milton
through... |
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. 162 Arizpe, Evelyn et al. Reading Lessons from the Eighteenth Century: Mothers, Children and Texts. Pied Piper Publishing. 31 |
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 | 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 | 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... |
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