Royal Navy

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Jane Austen
JA 's two youngest brothers, Francis William and Charles John , both joined the navy as midshipmen, and both ended their successful careers as admirals. While she never left the south of England, they (and...
Textual Features Jane Austen
Anne Elliot, heroine of Persuasion, gets a second chance to marry the man she had rejected nine years before under pressure from her elders. His prospects of a self-made career did not at that...
Family and Intimate relationships Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
Barbarina's father, Sir Chaloner Ogle , was a created a baronet for services to the British Navy ; he was the second distinguished naval officer to bear this complete name. He was known for absent-mindedness...
Occupation Mary Frances Billington
This was the first-ever appointment as a women's columnist. Next year, at a Royal Navy Exhibition, she became one of the first women to dive underwater while equipped with heavy diving equipment: one of her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Phyllis Bottome
The book describes the effects of bombing: effects on the cities of London and Liverpool, the Army , Navy , and Air Force , the Women's Auxiliary Services , and the lives of ordinary...
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Brassey
He was heir to one of the great Victorian railway contractors. He later became an MP and civil lord of the Admiralty, and, like his wife, a published author.
Briggs, Asa. A History of Longmans and Their Books 1724 - 1990. Longevity in Publishing. British Library and Oak Knoll Press.
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Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research.
166: 69, 71
His interest...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Hannah Cowley
A prologue complains that true comedy is being driven from the stage by farce and slapstick. The plot turns on the manoevres by which the despicable Fancourt seeks to swindle a provincial worthy, Sir Robert...
Textual Features Monica Dickens
Her protagonist has, like her husband, recently left the navy. In this case, however, the man is thirty-six, engaged in a love-affair with a television star, and involuntarily dismissed from the British Royal Navy ...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Isabella Duberly
As defensiveness on behalf of the British commanders in the Crimea increased, this book acquired a scandalous reputation. Its shape and scope, FID 's editor remarks, helped form the popular view of the Crimean or...
Residence Anne Hart Gilbert
They spent most of the rest of their lives at English Harbour, Antigua, which had been recently a mere village but was now the centre of operations for the British Navy in the Caribbean...
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Grand
SG 's father, Edward John Bellenden Clarke , came from an East Anglian Quaker family. He himself followed a non-Quaker profession as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy , and was stationed in Ireland as...
Textual Features Harriett Jay
The play takes as its subject Admiral Horatio Nelson , who is the victim of a murderous attack in the port of Dover by a Royal Navy captain (who has been suborned into the employ...
Family and Intimate relationships Ellis Cornelia Knight
ECK 's father, Sir Joseph Knight , was a Rear-Admiral of the White squadron. He entered the Royal Navy at the age of fourteen, needing a profession since his family had lost a considerable amount...
Friends, Associates Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny
MLCC mentions her warm friendships with leading officers of the Royal Navy , whom she knew through her husband's position. A number of writers too, including Mariana Starke , became her personal friends.
Crawford, Elizabeth. “Posts tagged Mariana Starke”. Woman and her Sphere.
2 November 2012
Textual Features Edith Mary Moore
EMM dedicated this book to her daughter, Edris. It has no paratext; and makes no mention of the fact that its protagonist, one of our civilian soldier boys, is modelled on the author's son Edward Lovell Moore

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11 February 1744: An English fleet under Thomas Mathews had...

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11 February 1744

An English fleet under Thomas Mathews had a somewhat desultory engagement with a slightly smaller fleet made up of French and Spanish ships.

11 October 1797: A British victory over the Dutch in the naval...

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11 October 1797

A British victory over the Dutch in the naval battle of Camperdown restored the reputation of the navy after the mutiny at Spithead earlier that year.

1-3 August 1798: In the Battle of the Nile (also known as...

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1-3 August 1798

In the Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir (or Abu Qir) Bay), the British fleet under Nelson attacked and in large part destroyed the fleet of revolutionary France.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Nelson

21 October 1805: Britain defeated Napoleonic France in a battle...

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21 October 1805

Britain defeated Napoleonic France in a battle off Cape Trafalgar; Nelson was fatally wounded.

1819: A Royal Navy squadron became active off West...

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1819

A Royal Navy squadron became active off West Africa, fighting the continuance of the slave trade, which had been abolished on 1 May 1807.

1853: Following the British Navy Medical Report's...

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1853

Following the British NavyMedical Report's recommendations, the hospital at Portsea devised a lock hospital for women.

29 December 1860: H.M.S. Warrior, the first sea-going iron-hulled...

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29 December 1860

H.M.S. Warrior, the first sea-going iron-hulled and ironclad warship, was launched by the Royal Navy .

3 July 1940: A Royal Navy task force destroyed much of...

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3 July 1940

A Royal Navy task force destroyed much of the French navy (at a time when France, recently Britain's ally, was largely German-occupied and governed by Marshall Pétain ) at Mers-el-Kébir on the coast of Algeria.

End of May 1941: Following the German attack on Crete on 20...

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End of May 1941

Following the German attack on Crete on 20 May (billed as the world's first airborne invasion), fierce fighting across the island ended when the British navy evacuated almost 15,000 soldiers.

10 March 1943: The House of Commons debated whether Wrens...

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10 March 1943

The House of Commons debated whether Wrens (members of the Women's Royal Naval Service ) should continue to be restricted to jobs ashore.

1947: The WRNS (Women's Royal Navy Service or Wrens)...

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1947

The WRNS (Women's Royal Navy Service or Wrens) was made a permanent force, though it was cut back to its initial size of about 3,000 members.

15 June 1953: BBC television made its first broadcast from...

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15 June 1953

BBC television made its first broadcast from a ship at sea, during a Royal Naval Review.

21 October 1960: Queen Elizabeth II launched the British Navy's...

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21 October 1960

Queen Elizabeth II launched the British Navy 's first nuclear submarine, HMS Dreadnought.

1990: The Royal Navy, while still barring women...

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1990

The Royal Navy , while still barring women from submarines and deep sea diving, allowed them to go to sea.

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