John Milton

In the early 1780s she was reading such challenging authors as Milton , Plato , Plutarch , and Aristotle .

In later life she said she could never enjoy reading Milton because to her Paradise Lost was a lesson-book for learning English from.

At home her mother had read to her daughters, while they sewed, Greek and Roman history, and writers like Pope , and Cowper . At four Anna could recite long passages from Milton 's L'Allegro...

Because of her mother's early death, MBE , she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books. Apart from the family library, a half-guinea annual subscription to the Ipswich Mechanics' Institution

KR wrote that she grew up reading the Bible daily and memorising passages from it. Her mother could recite long passages from Milton and other English poets, besides Scottish poems and ballads. She was glad...

Following her passion for classics, AC enrolled in St Michael's College at the University of Toronto in 1968. However, for the first few years of her undergraduate degree she was not contented with her studies...

Three years after her highschool graduation, doors suddenly opened for ESVM to go to college, although her preparation had not reached the standard generally demanded. Donors offered to support her at Vassar College (through Caroline B. Dow

Poetry was always important to her. She said that Dante 's Paradiso had changed her life. Her friend Rev P. H. Wicksteed reported that she found Milton 's Comus an intense and enduring delight.

TD and Aru were briefly enrolled at a boarding school in Nice where they studied French. After moving to England they continued their studies and attended the Higher Lectures for Women series begun by Henry Sidgwick

Anna's education was largely overseen by her parents. Before she was three she could recite passages from Milton 's L'Allegro and by nine the first three books of Paradise Lost.

As a girl, Mary Eleanor Bowes received an excellent education and could speak several languages, reading French and Italian authors in the original. It was said that she did not learn Latin, but also that...

So keen was the child on her school-learned skills that she kept a piece of broken slate in her pocket for writing whenever she could manage it. She liked to copy out poetry, but...

LMM saved enough money to attend Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. for one year, 1895-1896, where her studies included Milton and Carlyle . She wrote for the school newspaper and joined a literary...

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.

At fifteen she read Paradise Lost (with her brother's encouragement) and was delighted with its grandeur and sublimity, but was bold enough to criticise Milton for assert[ing] the superiority of his own sex in rather...