Elizabeth Strickland

(1794 - 1875)

The nineteenth-century historian Elizabeth Strickland wrote biographies of queens and other illustrious figures in British history but often without credit; per her wishes, her younger sister Agnes carried the sole byline in their coauthored works. “She had no real reason for her aversion” to attention, wrote another sister, Jane Margaret Strickland, “for her talents were equal to her sister’s, and her industry greater; but she hated notoriety, and never courted it in any shape.”