Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under George Douglas Campbell
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Cultural formation | Anna Atkins | She was born into the English professional class and was presumably white; her father was educated at Eton
and at Queen's College, Cambridge
. During the early years of her childhood her family was well... |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | As Robert Lee Wolff
argues, The Lady's Mile represents an innovation in the portrayal of male character in Victorian fiction: MEB
's brave officer sells his commission and leaves the army in order to pursue... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Brett | DB
's father, Reginald Baliol Brett
, became the second Viscount Esher after his father
's death in 1899. In his capacity as a peer and courtier, Reginald Regy Brett wore distinguished hats after being... |
Reception | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Within a few years Jessie White Mario
was frequently quoting Casa Guidi Windows in her campaign for the Italian cause, and after her death the City of Florence marked EBB
's contribution to unification with... |
Textual Features | Kathleen Caffyn | This three-volume narrative opens on the childhood of Gwen and Dacre Waring, a sister and brother who grow up in a wealthy, intellectual and agnostic family. Their parents' unorthodox values do not, however, extend to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Colin Campbell | Lord Colin Campbell, born on 8 March 1853 to George Douglas Campbell
, eighth duke of Argyll, and his wife, born Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower
, Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under George Douglas Campbell “The Late Lord Colin Campbell”. The Scotsman, Scotsman Publications, p. 7. (19 June 1895): 7 |
Education | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | Later she became interested in Plato
. In 1886 she was one of a group of women who began Greek classes at the Hampstead home of poet and scholar William Cory
, her longtime friend... |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | In her journals she occasionally refers to herself in the masculine as Anodos (her pseudonym, which sounds like a Greek, masculine personal name). In one such entry she writes: If Anodos had a boy (which... |
Education | Frances Cornford | Although her step-brother Bernard went to Eton
, Frances Cornford received her education at home, and sometimes shared classes with her nearby cousins, one of whom was Gwen Darwin
, later Raverat. Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xxvii - xxxvii. xxviii Raverat, Gwen. Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood. Faber and Faber. 63-4 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Blanche Warre Cornish | Blanche Ritchie
married, at Wimborne in Dorset, Francis Cornish
, a scholar and writer from a West-Country gentry family, who was a schoolmaster at Eton College
. The Trustees of FreeBMD,. FreeBMD. http://www.freebmd.org.uk/. Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934. Gale Research. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (30 August 1916): 9 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Blanche Warre Cornish | Francis Warre Cornish
, husband of BWC
, died. He had resigned that April from his positions at Eton
. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (30 August 1916): 9 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Blanche Warre Cornish | He later assumed his mother's birth-name, becoming Warre Cornish. He was older than his wife by seventeen years, and had fallen love with her when she was only sixteen.They had eight children together: in the... |
Publishing | Nancy Cunard | NC
published a poem for the first time, in the Eton College
Chronicle. Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf. 32 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth De la Pasture | EDP
explained to her American readers that the eponymous heroine of Peter's Mother, Lady Mary Crewys, was typical of an Englishwoman of a certain class in being isolated and guarded from all practical knowledge... |
Textual Features | E. M. Delafield | She obliged in her best comic vein. She enumerated the views of Englishmen on England (the views of women are not mentioned) in what today would be bullet points, as a kind of lovable reactionary's... |
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