Agnes Strickland (1806–1874)
Autore di Lives Of The Queens Of England
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Opere di Agnes Strickland
Tales From English History 5 copie
Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses connected with the regal succession of Great Britian Vol. 2 (2012) 4 copie
Lives of the Queens of Scotland, and English princesses connected with the regal succession of Great Britain. (1894) 4 copie
Lives of the queens of Scotland and English princesses, connected with the regal succession of Great Britain Volume 1 (2018) 1 copia
Stories from History 1 copia
Fisher's juvenile scrap-book 1 copia
Alda l'esclave bretonne 1 copia
Fisher's juvenile scrap-book 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Strickland, Agnes
- Data di nascita
- 1806
- Data di morte
- 1874-07-08
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- England
UK - Luogo di nascita
- Reydon Hall, Suffolk, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- England, UK
- Istruzione
- at home
- Attività lavorative
- historical writer
poet
Biographer - Relazioni
- Moodie, Susanna (sister)
Traill, Catharine Parr (sister)
Strickland, Samuel (brother) - Breve biografia
- Agnes Strickland was educated by her father, and began her literary career by publishing an historical romance in verse, Worcester Field (before 1833). Then she turned to writing historical tales for children. Her most famous works, still read today, are the Lives of the Queens of England and Lives of the Queens of Scotland, and English Princesses (8 volumes, published 1850–1859), and Letters of Mary Queen of Scots. Miss Strickland wrote picturesque and enthusiastic stories, but her amateur efforts lacked the rigorous standards and impartial objective tone that professional historians -- of her own time as well as today -- require. Most of what she wrote, especially on the Tudor family, is still cited in nonfiction and fictional portrayals of the subjects, despite many of the claims having later been dismissed as fictional speculation. Her shy sister Elizabeth assisted in her historical research but the full credit was given to Agnes. Her two other sisters Catharine Parr Traill and Susanna Moodie, who both emigrated to Canada, also became writers.
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