Though LAC
was at enmity with her first husband's brother Edward Sackville
(because her husband left all his assets to her while his brother received little but the title), she enjoyed a friendship with his...
Family and Intimate relationships
Sylvia Plath
SP
's son, Nicholas Farrar Hughes
, was born at home in Plath's and Hughes
's house, Court Green in Devon, and named after the seventeenth-century Nicholas Ferrar
, whom Ted Hughes claimed as...
Education
Mary Linskill
ML
was taught to read by her aunt Hannah Tireman
, a professional upholsterer.
Stamp, Cordelia. Mary Linskill. Caedmon of Whitby.
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She said later that she began to read both prose and poetry with avidity at an early age.
Bainton, George, editor. The Art of Authorship. J. Clarke.
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Her...
Education
Frances Ridley Havergal
FRH
was an avid reader within limits: her selection of material was mostly dictated by her religious interests. After receiving a copy of a book about literary women she commented, The sad sketch of L. E. L.