Agnes Strickland

Robert Petersen (Middle Tennessee State University)

Ed. by Grace Moore, University of Otago
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.07: English Writing and Culture of the Victorian Period, 1837-1901.
Vol. editors: Gillian Fenwick (University of Toronto), Jessica Gossling (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Dates

Born 19 Aug 1796
Died 8 Jul 1874
Activity 1816-1874

Places

Born in England
Active in England

Activities

Primary

Historian / Chronicler

Resources

Strickland's Works

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Arguably Victorian England’s most prolific female writer of historical texts geared for a contemporary popular readership, Agnes Strickland’s reputation today rests largely on the twelve-volume

Lives of the Queens of England

(1840-1848), written with her sister Elizabeth, whose contributions were anonymous during their lifetimes. Without academic or institutional credentials, Strickland invented herself as a writer of historical texts, increasingly based on personal research into original materials, and produced books that move toward revisionist life writing—an expression of her resistance to the control of cultural norms shaping both her subjects and herself as a writer of history.

Born in London on August 19, 1796, Agnes Strickland was the child of merchant Thomas Strickland, who

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Citation: Petersen, Robert. "Agnes Strickland". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 July 2022 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4264, accessed 23 November 2024.]