Agnes Strickland (born 18 August )
Agnes Strickland was the second daughter of the nine children born to Thomas Strickland and his second wife, Elizabeth Homer. Five of these children would, like Agnes, become writers.
| Agnes Strickland, painted in as her Lives of the Queens of England was being published. Portrait by John Hayes |
In , Thomas Strickland left his job as manager of Greenland Docks, London, and moved his growing family to Norwich, eventually purchasing Reydon Hall. In Norwich, he devoted himself to the education of his daughters--ensuring that their studies included geography, history, and mathematics. (He left his daughters' training in the "feminine skills" to his wife.)
Because his health was not good and his financial situation was precarious at best, Thomas Strickland educated his daughters so that they could support themselves--thus his daughters began to write.
Agnes Strickland's first work, though published anonymously, was a poem, "Monody upon the Death of the Princess Charlotte of Wales," which appeared in the Norwich Mercury in (The Norwich Mercury began publishing in and ended publication in )
Although she
Strickland, Agnes (–)
English historian and writer. Born Agnes Strickland on August 19, , in London, England; died on July 13, , in Southwold, Suffolk; third daughter of Thomas Strickland of Reydon Hall, Suffolk (a shipper), and Elizabeth (Homer) Strickland; sister of Elizabeth Strickland (–), Jane Margaret Strickland (–), Catherine Parr Traill (–), Susanna Moodie (–), and Samuel Strickland (–), all writers; tutored by her father in Greek, Latin, mathematics, and history; never married; no children.
Selected writings:
Worcester Field (n.d.); Demetrius and Other Poems (); Historical Tales of Illustrious British Children (); Tales and Stories from History (); The Lives of the Queens of England (12 vols., –48); Alda, the British Captive (); (ed.) Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots (); Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected with the Royal Succession of Great Britain(–59); Lives of the Bachelor Kings of England (); How Will It End? (); Lives of the Seven Bishops Committed to the Tower in (); Lives of the Tudor Princesses (); Lives of the Last Four Princesses of the Royal House of Stuart (); Guthred, the Widow's Slave (); The
A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Strickland, Agnes
Whose graceful pen has made the dead queens of England objects of deep interest to the living world, may justly be classed among the most eminent English female writers of the day. She resides at Reydon Hall, Suffolk, where she was born, being the third daughter of Thomas Strickland, Esq., of an ancient and honourable family, whose eight children are all remarkable for great intellectual powers. Miss Strickland is descended from the Nevilles, of Raby, who were connexions, in a remote degree, of the good Queen, Katharine Parr. We name this circumstance because of the influence such a reminiscence has undoubtedly exerted over the mind and pursuits of Miss Strickland. The love and reverence she was taught from childhood to cherish for the queen of her own ancestral line made the lives of these royal ladies the most interesting theme she could study or illustrate.
The reading public are too familiar with the result of these studies to require any description thereof; yet few, probably, have considered the labour as well as talent involved in the great work of these &#;ladies;—there are two Misses Strickland united in th
Dictionary of National Biography, /Strickland, Agnes
&#;STRICKLAND, AGNES (–), historian, second surviving daughter of Thomas Strickland of Reydon Hall, near Southwold, Suffolk, and of his second wife, Elizabeth Homer, was born in London on 19 Aug. There were nine children of the marriage. Five of them besides Agnes distinguished themselves (though in a less degree) by their literary talent. These were Elizabeth (–), Jane Margaret (–), Samuel (–) [see below], Mrs. Susanna Moodie (–) [see Moodie, Donald], and Mrs. Catherine Parr Traill (b. ), who survived them all. The father, Thomas Strickland, was descended from a family of yeomen settled in the Furness district of North Lancashire. The connection, if any, with the Stricklands of Sizergh, to which Miss Strickland constantly referred, is remote, and is unsupported by documentary evidence (Davy's ‘Suffolk Pedigrees,’ Addit. MS. ). Thomas Strickland was in the employment of Messrs. Hallett & Wells, shipowners, and became manager of the Greenland docks. He resided first at the Laurels, Thorpe, near Norwich, then at Stowe House, near Bungay, and finally, in , bought Reydon Hall, Suffolk. He also possessed a house at Norwi
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