Значение слова STRICKLAND в Литературной энциклопедии

AGNES (1796 or 1806-1874).-Historical writer, _dau._ of Thomas S., of Royden Hall, Suffolk, was _ed._ by her _f._, and began her literary career with a poem, _Worcester Field_, followed by _The Seven Ages of Woman_ and _Demetrius_. Abandoning poetry she next produced among others _Historical Tales of Illustrious British Children_ (1833), _The Pilgrims of Walsingham_ (1835), _Tales and Stories from History_ (1836). Her chief works, however, are _Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest_, and _Lives of the Queens of Scotland_, and _English Princesses, etc._ (8 vols., 1850-59), _Lives of the Bachelor Kings of England_ (1861), and _Letters of Mary Queen of Scots_, in some of which she was assisted by her sister Elizabeth. Though laborious and conscientious she lacked the judicial faculty, and her style does not rise above mediocrity.