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Agnes Strickland's Lives of the Queens of England
Strickland was possibly the most celebrated English female historical biographer of the 19th Century. Antonia Fraser selects her best writing and explains its importance.
Agnes Strickland
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Agnes Strickland's Queens of England
Agnes Strickland's Queens of England
Life of Agnes Strickland (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Life of Agnes Strickland Agnes felt for her beloved parent alone checked her tears. She promised to obey him; and in after-life was grate ful to him for his wise and judicious criticism on her juvenile performance, though no harsh critique on her later works ever gave her so much pain as his had done. He rewarded her docility by putting the works of Mil ton, Gray, and Collins into her hands, the perusal of which inclined her to consign her immature attempt to the ames. Agnes, after this discouragement, exchanged her liter ary work for that of the needle, in which she greatly excelled. She was fond of owers, and took pleasure in cultivating them; but for reading she had an absolu...
