It was probably Mary A. Marzials
' anthology Gems of English Poetry which made poetry the only lesson the Knoxes disliked. Winifred felt that Hemans
's boy on the burning deck cut a poor figure...
Education
Cecily Mackworth
She was at first educated at home by thirteen successive governesses. Her mother sometimes read aloud to her daughters: R. D. Blackmore
' Lorna Doone and Anna Sewell
's Black Beauty. After meeting Hardy
Timeline
By 17 April 1869: R. D. Blackmore published Lorna Doone....
Writing climate item
By 17 April 1869
R. D. Blackmore
published Lorna Doone.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2164 (1869): 534
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray, 1972.
403
Texts
Blackmore, R. D. Lorna Doone. Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1869, 3 vols.
