Chandos, Oliver Lyttelton, first Viscount. The Memoirs of Lord Chandos. Bodley Head, 1962.
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Cultural formation | Edith Lyttelton | EL
's ancestors were Scottish; they hailed from Midlothian. They claimed kinship with David Balfour, the hero of Robert Louis Stevenson
's Kidnapped, and Sir John Harington
, the Elizabethan inventor of the water closet. Chandos, Oliver Lyttelton, first Viscount. The Memoirs of Lord Chandos. Bodley Head, 1962. xiv |
Education | Hilary Mantel | HM
later wrote of her earliest memory. Her early world, she said, was synaesthesic. Mantel, Hilary. “Giving up the Ghost: A Memoir”. London Review of Books, 2 Jan. 2003, pp. 8-13. 8 Mantel, Hilary. Giving up the Ghost. Fourth Estate, 2003. 23 |
Education | Mary Wesley | Mary acquired various country skills, like milking (by hand), butter-making, and of course riding. Wesley, Mary, and Kim Sayer. Part of the Scenery. Bantam, 2001. 19, 20 |
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 | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it... |
Education | Rosemary Sutcliff | Rosemary's mother was probably her most important teacher. She told her stories which, no matter how outlandish and fantastic, the very young Rosemary accepted as literal truth; she later imparted all kinds of varied information... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | Fleeming (pronounced Fleming) Jenkin had great abilities that were evident from an early age. His biographer, Robert Louis Stevenson
, rates his mother's influence over him very high, and admires though he cannot wholly approve... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Graham Greene | Marion Greene was also, on her mother's side, a first cousin once removed of Robert Louis Stevenson
. Sherry, Norman. The Life of Graham Greene: Volume I. Random House, 2004. 36, 38 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Carswell | CC
's father, George Gray Macfarlane
, had worked as a young man in the Caribbean and the USA. He exported textiles to the West Indies and was president and a founder of the YMCA |
Family and Intimate relationships | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | Charles Jenkin's family was Welsh but had lived in England for generations and was now settled at Northiam in Sussex. His father had died eight months before, leaving nothing but debt behind him. Charles... |
Friends, Associates | Rudyard Kipling | Kipling's fame brought easy acquaintances with celebrities. In November 1894, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
stayed as a guest in his American home. On the death in Samoa of Robert Louis Stevenson
(whom he had never... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | In London ATR
connected or re-connected with friends including Kipling
, Robert Louis Stevenson
, Sidney Lee
, Arnold Bennett
, and Rhoda Broughton
. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981. 260-1, 272 |
Friends, Associates | George Meredith | GM
knew the poets Dante Gabriel Rossetti
and Algernon Swinburne
—he sometimes stayed with them while in London. He also knew Emma Caroline Wood
, Lucie Duff Gordon
, Leslie Stephen
, Anne Thackeray Ritchie |
Friends, Associates | Alice Meynell | On her trip to the United States, AM
met the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson
, and the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead
and his wife Evelyn Wade
. Meynell, Viola. Alice Meynell: A Memoir. J. Cape, 1947. 177, 187 |
Friends, Associates | Elma Napier | EN
's aristocratic lineage brought her into contact with many notable government and royal figures. As a young girl, she often visited the fifteenth-century Château de Breteuil, not far from Paris, home of her... |