King Edward VII

Standard Name: Edward VII, King
Used Form: Edward Prince of Wales
Used Form: Edward Albert
Used Form: Albert Edward, Prince of Wales

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Travel Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Following her husband's retirement, MEB and her family spent significant time abroad, moving in high society in Paris, Lyons, Marseilles, and Cannes, where they mixed with aristocrats including the Prince of Wales
Travel John Oliver Hobbes
JOH travelled extensively, often in her role as a now-famous author. She had first revisited the United States, after leaving it as a baby, in May 1886.
Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray.
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She saw much of England and...
Travel Violet Trefusis
After the Berlitz School , Violet was given a trip to Spain for her fifteenth birthday. Then, following the King 's death on 6 May 1910, Mrs Keppel announced that the family would travel to...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Caroline Norton
For epigraph she chose a quotation from her friend Sidney Herbert , calling for better communication between different social ranks. Employing Spenser ian stanzas (CN listed The Faerie Queene among her favourite poems), the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eliza Cook
She alludes to the flattering welcome her previous collection had received.
Cook, Eliza. Poems. Simpkin, Marshall.
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A good portion of her preface is taken up with responding to gendered criticism of her work: I have been told that I...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The ODNB notes that the early stories in particular are sharply critical of official incompetence and aristocratic privilege.A Scandal in Bohemia hints at the well-concealed love-life of the Prince of Wales . Characters of...
Textual Production Carola Oman
She sent her first sonnets to magazines under the name of C. Oman, and the rejection slips came in addressed to her father. There was not much Women's Lib. in my early days.
Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Textual Production Fay Weldon
The next year this series, Love and Inheritance, expanded to include two more titles: Long Live the King (published in April 2013) and The New Countess (published in November 2013). The first of these...
Textual Production Emma Robinson
ER turned from prose to poetry to issue, again as the author of Whitefriars, an Epithalamium in honour of the marriage of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales.
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Textual Production Dorothy Brett
The New Yorker in the event paid $410, of which an agent claimed ten percent and Crichton claimed a third. Brett did make another thirty-five dollars when the piece was reprinted in a volume. Her...
Textual Production John Oliver Hobbes
JOH 's non-fiction included travel essays in epistolary form written while in Delhi for the durbar for Edward VII in early 1903. These were originally published in England in the Daily Graphic and in the...
Textual Production Marie Belloc Lowndes
Thirty-six years after this publication, MBL wrote of the way [m]uch is left out that should have been put into official biographies, because of the writer's need to keep a nervous eye cocked on certain...
Textual Production Catherine Marsh
A few months after publishing The Prince and the Prayer (an account of the Prince of Wales 's divinely-ordered escape from typhoid), CM followed it with The Prince and the Praise, through the same...
Textual Production Catherine Marsh
CM and her niece L. E. (Lucy) O'Rorke collaborated over the publication of The Prince 's Return through J. Nisbet and Co. Lucy identified herself by her initials, CM as the Author of The Prince...
Textual Production Violet Trefusis
Major holdings of VT 's papers are at the Beinecke Library at Yale University . This collection includes letters between her and Vita Sackville-West from 1940 onwards, and from Edward VII to Alice Keppel ...

Timeline

From May 1851: At the Great Exhibition, Bax and Company...

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From May 1851

At the Great Exhibition, Bax and Company exhibited their newly invented waterproof, flexible, breathable fabric called Aquascutum.

1862: By royal command, photographer Francis Bedford...

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1862

By royal command, photographer Francis Bedford attended the Prince of Wales on his trip to the Near East.

May 1877: Lillie Langtry, aged twenty-four, made her...

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May 1877

Lillie Langtry , aged twenty-four, made her entrance into London society at a dinner party; she soon became a famous professional beauty.

By 24 December 1881: Lillie Langtry became the first English society...

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By 24 December 1881

Lillie Langtry became the first English society woman to appear professionally on the stage when she played Kate Hardcastle in Goldsmith 's She Stoops to Conquer at the Haymarket Theatre , London.

21 April 1883: The Royal College of Music was founded in...

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21 April 1883

The Royal College of Music was founded in London.

1889-1893: Augustus Harris rented Covent Garden opera...

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1889-1893

Augustus Harris rented Covent Garden opera house, where he instigated many changes. Most notably, French and German operas were performed in their original language for the first time at that venue.

18 December 1890: London's City and South London line became...

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18 December 1890

London's City and South London line became the world's first electric underground railway and the first to supply electricity to locomotives by means of a third rail.

1896: The Daimler Company of Stuttgart opened a...

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1896

The Daimler Company of Stuttgart opened a factory in England at Coventry. It manufactured patented French and German cars.

22 January 1901: Edward VII assumed the throne on the death...

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22 January 1901

Edward VII assumed the throne on the death of his mother, Queen Victoria .

19 July 1904: King Edward VII laid the foundation stone...

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19 July 1904

King Edward VII laid the foundation stone for Liverpool Cathedral, built to the designs of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott .

18 November 1905: King Edward VII's daughter Queen Maud became...

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18 November 1905

King Edward VII 's daughter Queen Maud became Norway's first queen in the year that that country gained its independence from Sweden and her husband accepted election to its throne as Haakon VII .

26 June 1909: Edward VII opened the Victoria and Albert...

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26 June 1909

Edward VII opened the Victoria and Albert Museum , South Kensington, London.

January 1910: A general election was fought in Britain...

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January 1910

A general election was fought in Britain on the issue of Lloyd George 's people's budget of the previous year: the combined Conservative and [Ulster] Unionist Parties came in only two votes behind the Liberals

6 May 1910: King Edward VII died, and George V assumed...

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6 May 1910

King Edward VII died, and George V assumed the throne; Virginia Woolf dated a section of The Years from the old king's death.

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