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Tales from English history: for children. Last edn Philadelphia
1899 with title Illustrious British children: a story of their childhood.
The royal brothers rptd separately 1876.
Tales and stories from history. 2 vols 1836, 1 vol Philadelphia 1848,
London 1855, 1859 (8th edn, 1 vol), 1870 (1 vol). US edns with title
Stories from history, New York and Boston 1854, New York 1860,
Philadelphia 1876. US edn with title True stories from modern
history . . . revised and amended, New York 1853, Philadelphia
[188?] and 1900. Tr Fr 1836.
Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest; with
anecdotes of their courts, now first published from official
records and other authentic documents, private as well as public.
12 vols 1840–8, 12 vols Philadelphia 1840–8, 12 vols with corrections
to first 3 vols, 1841–8. First 3 vols pbd with corrections and
additions, Philadelphia 1841. Another 12-vol edn with corrections
and additions to first 7 vols, Philadelphia 1844–8, rptd in 5 vols
New York 1885, and micro Emporia KS 1969. 12 vols in 6
Philadelphia 1848, rptd many times up to 1859. New 8-vol edn
1851–2 (‘revised and greatly augmented’, with new preface by
Agnes acknowledging Elizabeth’s contribution), rptd Bath 1972
(introd Antonia Fraser). New 8-vol edn 1854 (‘embellished with
portraits of every queen’, micro Ottawa 1985); this edn reissued
1857, rptd 1871, 1882–5. 6-vol edn 1864 (rev, minus portraits), rptd
many times, lastly in 1912–16. Limited edns, with biographical
introd by J. F. Kirk, 8 vols Philadelphia 1892, 16 vols Philadelphia
1902–3 (priv ptd). 1 vol abridgement by Agnes Strickland, 1867,
New York 1867 (rev and ed C. G. Parker). 3-vol abridgement by R.
Kaufman, Boston [1882] (with new sections on queens up to
Victoria), Chicago and New York [1895], Akron OH 1895.
Lives of the Queens of England was often issued in sets comprising vols from
more than one edn. Extracts were also pbd in the following:
Elizabeth, second Queen Regnant of England and Ireland. 2 vols in 1
Philadelphia 1849. Includes Anne of Denmark.
The Queens of England: a series of portraits of distinguished female
sovereigns, with biographical and historical sketches. 1 vol New
York 1851, 1852 (new edn).
Memoirs of the Queens of Henry VIII, and of his mother Elizabeth
of York. 1 vol Philadelphia 1853.
Biographical sketches of the Queens of England, from the Norman
Conquest to the reign of Victoria: or Royal book of beauty. Ed
Mary Howitt 1868.
Life of Elizabeth, Queen of England . . .. New York [1880?].
The life of Queen Elizabeth. 1905 (abridged and ed I. A. Taylor). New
York [190?], rptd [193-?].
The life of Queen Elizabeth. 1906 (EL), rptd [1915], [1924].
In Lives of the Queens of England, Agnes covered the following queens:
Matilda of Flanders, Matilda of Scotland, Matilda of Boulogne, Eleanor of
Provence, Isabella of France, Joanna of Navarre, Margaret of Anjou, Anne
Boleyn, Anne of Cleves, Katharine Howard, Katharine Parr, Elizabeth I,
Catherine of Braganza, Mary Beatrice of Modena.
Elizabeth covered: Adelicia of Louvaine, Eleanora of Aquitaine, Berengaria of
Navarre, Isabella of Angouleme, Eleanora of Castile, Marguerite of France,
Philippa of Hainault, Anne of Bohemia, Isabella of Valois, Katherine of
Valois, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne of Warwick, Elizabeth of York, Katharine
of Aragon, Jane Seymour, Mary I, Anne of Denmark, Henrietta Maria of
France, Mary II, Anne.
Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English princesses connected
with the regal succession of Great Britain. 8 vols Edinburgh and
London 1850–9; 8 vols New York 1851–9; 2nd edn of first 2 vols
1854; 3rd edn of vol 1 1859 (with new preface). A 2-vol abridgement
and adaptation by R. Kaufman pbd Boston ‘1887’ [1886]
with title The Queens of Scotland, rptd [1894], Chicago and New
York [1895]; vol 2 of this was reissued separately in 1887 as The life
of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland. Like Lives of the Queens of
England, Lives of the Queens of Scotland was often issued in sets
comprising vols from more than one edn.
John Sterling | William Taylor
Agnes covered Magdalen of France, Mary of Lorraine, Mary, Queen of Scots,
and Lady Margaret Douglas; Elizabeth covered Margaret Tudor, Elizabeth of
Bohemia, and Sophia, Electress of Hanover.
Agnes’s abridgement of the vols on Mary, Queen of Scots was pbd as Life of
Mary, Queen of Scots, 2 vols 1873, rptd several times up to 1913, New York
1893.
Lives of the bachelor Kings of England. 1861. Agnes covered William
Rufus and Edward VI; Elizabeth covered Edward V.
The lives of the seven bishops committed to the Tower in 1688.
Enriched and illustrated with personal letters, now first published,
from the Bodleian Library. 1866. Agnes covered Sancroft,
Ken, Lake, White and Turner; Elizabeth covered Lloyd and
Trelawney.
Lives of the Tudor princesses, including Lady Jane Grey and her
sisters. 1868. Another edn 1888. Agnes covered Lady Eleanor
Brandon, Lady Frances Brandon, Lady Margaret Clifford and
Lady Arabella Stuart; Elizabeth covered Mary Tudor and Ladies
Jane, Katharine and Mary Grey. The book was repbd with Agnes’s
Lives of the last four princesses of the Royal House of Stuart,
1888, with the title Lives of the Tudor and Stuart princesses, 1888.
Editions
Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots. Now first published from the originals,
from various sources, private as well as public, with an historical
introduction and notes. 3 vols 1842, 2 vols 1843, micro New
Haven CT 1975. New 2-vol edn 1844, micro Ann Arbor MI 1975;
this edn rptd 1848.
The writers of the following works were all siblings of Agnes and Elizabeth
Strickland:
Traill, Catherine Parr. Canadian Crusoes: a tale of the Rice Lake
Plains. 1852, 1869 (2nd edn), rptd [1923].
Strickland, Samuel. Twenty-seven years in Canada West: or the
experience of an early settler. 1853.
Strickland, Jane Margaret. Rome, regal and republican: a family
history of Rome. 1854.
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Strickland, Jane Margaret. Life of Agnes Strickland, by her sister.
Edinburgh and London 1887.
Pope-Hennessy, U. Agnes Strickland, biographer of the Queens of
England, 1796–1874. 1940. [jw]
William Taylor 1765–1836
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Lessing, Nathan the wise, written originally in German. Norwich
1791 (priv ptd), London 1805; ed H. Morley 1886.
Goethe, Iphigenia in Tauris: a tragedy. 1793 (priv ptd), 1794.
Wieland. Dialogues of the gods. 1795.
Bürger, Ellenore. 1796. Rptd with some alterations from Monthly
Mag Mar 1796.
Select fairy tales from the German of Wieland. 1796.
Tales of yore. 3 vols 1810. From Fr to Ger.
A letter concerning the two first chapters of Luke. 1810. Anon.
English synonyms discriminated. 1813, 1850; tr Ger 1851.
Some biographic particulars of the late Dr Sayers. Prefixed to Frank
Sayers, Collective works, Norwich 1823.
Historic survey of German poetry: interspersed with various translations.
3 vols 1828–30.
A memoir of the late Philip Meadows Martineau, surgeon. 1831.
With F. Elwin.
Taylor’s 1,754 articles and reviews were largely pbd in Monthly Rev
1793–1824.
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Carlyle, T. Taylor’s historic survey of German poetry. Edinburgh Rev
53 1831.
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