AGNES

See also:

• AGNES STRICKLAND (18061874)
• STRICKLAND, HUGH EDWIN (1811—1853)

STRICKLAND (18061874)  , English historical writer, was born in 1806, the third daughter of Thomas Strickland, of Reydon Hall, Suffolk . Her first literary efforts were historical romances in verse in the style of Walter Scott—Worcester Field (published without date), Demetrius and other Poems (1833) . From this she passed to prose histories, written in a simple style for the young . A picturesque sketch of the Pilgrims of Walsingham appeared in 1835, two volumes of Tales and Stories from History in the following year . Then, with the assistance of her sister, she projected a more ambitious work, The Lives of the Queens of England, from Matilda of Flanders to Queen Anne . The first volume appeared in 1840, the twelfth and last in 1849 . Miss Strickland was a warm partisan on the side of royalty and ' This condition is realized in practice when the fluid causing internal pressure is held in by a piston, and the stress between this piston and the other end of the cylinder is taken by some other part of the structure than the cylinder sides . ' The solution which follows in the text is applicable even when there is longitudinal stress, provided that the longitudinal stress is uniformly distributed over each transverse section . If we call this stress p", the longitudinal strain is p"/E+(p+p')/uE . Since the whole strain is uniform, and p" is uniform, the sum of p and p' is constant at all points, as in the case where the ends are free.the church, but she made industrious study of " official records and other public documents," gave copious extracts from them, and drew interesting pictures of manners and customs . While engaged on this work she found time in 1843 to edit the Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, whose innocence she championed with enthusiasm . In 185o she followed up her Queens of England with the Lives of the Queens of Scotland, completing the series in eight volumes in 1859 .

Unresting in her

industry, she turned next to the Bachelor Kings of England, about whom she published a volume in 1861 . The Lives of the Seven Bishops followed in 1866—after a longer interval, part of which was employed in producing an abridged version of her Queens of England . Her last work was the Lives of the Last Four Stuart Princesses, published in 1872 . In 1871 she obtained a civil-list pension of boo in recognition of her merits . She died on the 8th of July 1874 . A Life by her sister, Jane Margaret Strickland, appeared in 1887 .