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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 ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Pam Gems | PG
's mother, Elsie (Annetts) Price
, and her two widowed grandmothers brought her up. |
| 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... |
| Cultural formation | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Born Scottish, with some Irish forebears, the young Conan Doyle (later SACD
) was somewhat precariously placed in the British middle class, living in comparative poverty but supported through a privileged education by richer relations... |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Dixie | FD
's second son, Albert Edward Wolston Beaumont Dixie
, was born: the future King Edward VII
, still Prince of Wales, stood godfather to him. Roberts, Brian. The Mad Bad Line. Hamish Hamilton. 79 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Leisure and Society | Florence Dixie | Such wanderings were an escape from the trammels of society, which FD
slighted as far as she could. For her presentation at Court she refused to grow her short hair long enough to be put... |
| Dedications | Florence Dixie | The journey was undertaken with the intention of writing about it. The book appeared with a dedication, by permission, to the Prince of Wales
. Roberts, Brian. The Mad Bad Line. Hamish Hamilton. 83 |
| Performance of text | Elizabeth De la Pasture | Peter's Mother was first adapted for the stage, as a three-act comedy which reached print in 1910 and which meanwhile, in 1906, had a royal command performance at the royal estate of Sandringham in Norfolk... |
| Textual Features | Hannah Cullwick | HC
plays up the Victorian obsession with dirt regularly, often noting that she prepared meals in [her] dirt Cullwick, Hannah. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant. Editor Stanley, Liz, Rutgers University Press. 69, 116 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Cook | She alludes to the flattering welcome her previous collection had received. Cook, Eliza. Poems. Simpkin, Marshall. v |
| Performance of text | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Her stage version of Little Lord Fauntleroy opened in London on 14 May 1888 to a barrage of publicity. The Dawn of a Tomorrow (a New Thought play) also opened in London in spring 1910... |
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