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Education | Julia Ward Howe | Although she briefly attended young ladies' schools, JWH
was mainly educated at home. She was tutored by Joseph Cogswell
, who would go on to head the Astor Library
. Under his instruction she mastered... |
Education | Vernon Lee | Violet also had several German and Swiss governesses. Marie Krebs Schülpbach
, who taught her at Thun in Switzerland when Violet stayed there in 1866-9, was especially influential: they read theGrimms
, Goethe
... |
Education | Anna Swanwick | |
Education | Dora Russell | Here Dora became passionate about Goethe
and Schiller
, Mendelssohn
and Schubert
, and about theatre in general. |
Education | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | After Greystone House, Emmeline Pethick started attending a Quaker school in Weston-super-Mare, where her family had moved. She became a boarder at this school when she was twelve. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion, 1976. 57 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Fredrika Bremer | She was frustrating to her teachers too, as, according to Frumerie, she had an unusually good memory while studying, yet she could never remember what was told her in daily life. Bremer, Fredrika. Life, Letters, and Posthumous Works of Fredrika Bremer. Editor Bremer, Charlotte, Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1868, https://archive.org/details/lifelettersposth00bremuoft/mode/2up. 18 |
Education | Jane Welsh Carlyle | |
Friends, Associates | Germaine de Staël | In Germany she was celebrated as the author of Delphine. She met with Schiller
, Goethe
, Henry Crabb Robinson
, and Schlegel
, whom she persuaded to tutor her three living children. Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985. 61-2 |
Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | On 11 May 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson
recorded in his diary meeting JB
and other women writers on a visit to Miss Benjers (Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
). In his account of this pleasant evening... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Toru Dutt | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | The subtitle of this novel (which in earlier centuries had been the title of a bawdy song) here alludes to a proverb about the impossible perfections of maids' husbands and bachelors' children. This first novel... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rose Allatini | At eighteen, in 1908 (which makes her the same age as her author), she experiences initial social success in Vienna, Allatini, Rose. Girl of Good Family. Martin Secker, 1935. 51 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Joanna Baillie | Baillie's preface explicitly denies that she was influenced by (even that she had read) German tragedians, while implicitly calling attention to the similarities in style and subject-matter between her work and theirs: for instance between... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amelia Opie | Both in an Address to the Editor and in a series of explanatory footnotes, AO
positions herself on the one hand as a historian with a proper regard for available evidence, and on the other... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | FH
studied German earnestly during this period of her life, and preferred Schiller
to Goethe
. Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn, 1843, 2 vols. 235 Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315. 54 |