Andrews, William L., and Mary Seacole. “Introduction”. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, Oxford University Press, p. xxvii - xxxiv.
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Occupation | Mary Seacole | In the 1870s MS
developed a friendship with Alexandra
(wife of Edward Prince of Wales
), to whom she acted as unofficial masseuse though she was by this time in her late sixties. Andrews, William L., and Mary Seacole. “Introduction”. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, Oxford University Press, p. xxvii - xxxiv. xxxiii Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
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. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Birth | Carola Oman | CO
was born in Oxford, the middle child in a family of three, during a visit to Oxford by the Prince of Wales
. Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton. 51 |
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. 89 |
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... |
Reception | Florence Nightingale | FN
became the first woman to receive the Order of Merit, from King Edward VII
; Queen Victoria
had already awarded her the Royal Red Cross. Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice. xxiii Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elma Napier | The game in question occurred at Wilson's home in September 1890. The Prince of Wales
had been in attendance, and was called to testify against EN
's father. The guilty verdict is often attributed to... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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