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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
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | LDG
was visited by a number of Europeans who were travelling through Egypt. Shortly before her death the Prince
and Princess of Wales
visited her on the Urania. She exacted a promise from the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Pam Gems | PG
's mother, Elsie (Annetts) Price
, and her two widowed grandmothers brought her up. |
Leisure and Society | Maud Gonne | On her father's return to Dublin, MG
made her début in society on 9 April 1885 at Dublin Castle (the Irish centre of British high society as well as British power). This purely social occasion... |
politics | Maud Gonne | After coming into her inheritance, MG
put a great deal of effort into campaigning in England and beyond for the cause of Irish Home Rule. She invested great energy in political activism throughout her life... |
Reception | Mary Harcourt | The introduction to Miscellanies volume 15 refers to the interest of the then Prince of Wales
in the portion we were allowed to print of the amusing diary of Lady Harcourt, which we should have... |
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. 12 |
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... |
Leisure and Society | Fanny Kingsley | FK
was well respected by the family's social circle, and attended several notable events with her husband. Both Charles and Fanny Kingsley were invited to the wedding on 10 March 1863 of Edward, Prince of Wales |
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 Features | Catherine Marsh | The book was inspired by the typhoid fever which Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
, suffered in December 1871. A service was held for him on the 14th, the anniversary of the death of his... |
Occupation | George Meredith | GM
received several honours for his literary achievements, including the Order of Merit from Edward VII
and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature
. In 1892 he succeeded Tennyson
as president of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Meynell | AM
's sister Elizabeth
, later Lady Butler, became a well-known painter. She earned high praise for her depiction of a battle scene in The Roll Call, exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1874... |
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