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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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. 282 Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research. 166: 69, 71 |
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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