Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Blue Penguin Publications.
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William Ewart Gladstone
Standard Name: Gladstone, William Ewart
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Isabella Bird | After IB
's return from her travels in Persia and Tibet, Prime Minister William Gladstone
, other British MPs, and professional organisations all requested her audience and invited her to speak about her experiences. |
| Travel | Mary Frances Billington | MFB
used her growing influence and reputation as a journalist to secure means for a research expedition to India, the first of several major professional travels. She thanked the Prime Minister, Gladstone
, for... |
| Publishing | Mary Frances Billington | MFB
sent William Ewart Gladstone
a copy to thank him for his help in facilitating her expedition. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
was short of money in her later years, and applied unsuccessfully to Gladstone
for help out of the Civil List
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Textual Production | Annie Besant | She had, she wrote, resolved that my first public lecture should be on behalf of my own sex. This motivated her choice of theme. Wallraven, Miriam. “’A Mere Instrument’ or ’Proud as Lucifer’? Self-Presentations in the Occult Autobiographies by Emma Hardinge Britten (1900) and Annie Besant (1893)”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 15 , No. 3, pp. 390-11. 400 |
| Friends, Associates | Gertrude Bell | Her closest friend at Oxford was Mary Talbot
, niece of William Gladstone
. Other friends included Edith Langridge
and Janet Hogarth
, sister of archaeologist David Hogarth
. Wallach, Janet. Desert Queen. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. 22 |
| Friends, Associates | Louisa May Alcott | LMA
was a friend of, among others, Frances Hodgson Burnett
, Ralph Waldo Emerson
, who helped her family manage their financial difficulties, and Henry David Thoreau
, who taught science to her and her... |
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