Writing by SJD
suggests that some of her early reading included Sterne
and Defoe
. She also had access to Blackwood's and the Cornhill Magazine, and romantic novels by Mary Cecil Hay
and Mary Jane Holmes
.
Fowler, Marian. Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan. Anansi, 1983.
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Education
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Perhaps most important for Ella, however, was her mother
's influence and guidance, and the reading of every magazine she could lay her hands on, together with works by Ouida
, Mary J. Holmes
...