Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Violence | Queen Victoria | QV
was warned that Fenians
were plotting to seize and possibly assassinate her. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row. 359 Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press. xvii Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin. 200 |
Violence | Queen Victoria | A young man with Fenian
connections was apprehended for an assassination attempt on QV
; his pistol proved not to be loaded. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row. 390 Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin. 227 |
Violence | Queen Victoria | While the Queen and her entourage were on a drive, QV
's close personal servant and friend John Brown
spotted the pistol in the hand of a bystander and wrestled the potential assassin to the... |
politics | Dora Sigerson | Greatly moved by the Easter Rising of 1916 and the executions which followed it, DS
created a sculpture in memory of the events of the Rising; the sculpture now stands in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | |
Author summary | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | |
Literary responses | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | Fenian Will Upton
, whose own publication venture she later encouraged, wrote to praise the novel's freedom from sensationalism. To depict our peasant life truly without prejudice is indeed a national good. . .... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah Lynch | Most unusually, the name of HL
's father remains unknown. He was a member of the Fenians
who nonetheless believed in pursuing political goals through non-violence. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Hannah Lynch | Introduced in the Athenæum on 24 September 1898 as a story of an unhappy childhood, Binckes, Faith, and Kathryn Laing. “Irish Autobiographical Fiction and Hannah Lynch’s Autobiography of a Child”. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Vol. 55 , No. 2, pp. 195-18. 198 |
Characters | Emily Lawless | Lawless conveys the tension between peasant farmers and upper-class landlords (and the English government) through the lives of her characters, and suggests, as one reviewer describes it, a sad feeling of the hopelessness .... |
politics | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | JFLW
was no democrat, but an ardent Irish nationalist (as was her future husband). She was deeply discouraged by the failure of the 1848 uprising. She was supportive of the Young Irelanders
and published in... |
Violence | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | |
politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | She soon began to associate with activists Arthur Griffith
, Bulmer Hobson
, Eoin MacNeill
, and Patrick Pearse
, who were then members of such groups as the Irish Republican Brotherhood
(IRB
). Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora. 66-9 |
politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | Despite her focus on the ICA, CCM
maintained a passionate involvement with many (sometimes conflicting) groups, such as Sinn Féin
, the Irish Republican Brotherhood
, and the Irish Volunteers
. Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora. 104, 118, 121 |
Publishing | Frances Power Cobbe |
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