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Richard Monckton Milnes
Standard Name: Milnes, Richard Monckton
Used Form: Richard Monckton Milnes,,, first Baron Houghton
Used Form: Lord Houghton
Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | Thomas Hardy | A more lasting attraction was to Florence Henniker
(daughter of writer Richard Monckton Milnes
). She, however, was a married woman who had no thought of being unfaithful to her husband. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Nightingale | After a seven-year courtship, FN
received a proposal of marriage from poet and politician Richard Monckton Milnes
. Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996. 166: 270 Nightingale, Florence. Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale. Editors Vicinus, Martha and Bea Nergaard, Harvard University Press, 1990. 40 Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice, 2002. xix, 43 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Coventry Patmore | His father, Peter George Patmore
, was a writer and journalist. He edited The New Monthly Magazine from 1841 to 1853, and counted among his friends William Hazlitt
, Charles Lamb
, Richard Monckton Milnes |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | In 1854 she met Charles Kingsley
at a dinner given by Richard Monckton Milnes
. |
Friends, Associates | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | |
Friends, Associates | Algernon Charles Swinburne | In May 1861, he met Richard Monckton Milnes
, who introduced him to the works of the marquis de Sade
. Soon after this he met another important influence on his life, the explorer and... |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
entered the social scene of the capital with several connections already made. Her London friends included members of the Kingsley and Rossetti families, feminist reformer Frances Power Cobbe
, author John Ruskin
, Samuel Carter |
Friends, Associates | Anthony Trollope | Trollope was a friend of William Thackeray
, G. H. Lewes
, Richard Monckton Milnes
, George Eliot
, William Russell
, and John Everett Millais
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
's later social circle included many writers: Sydney, Lady Morgan
, who became a close friend and for whom GJ
acted as amanuensis; author Lady Llanover
; author and publisher Douglas Jerrold
; and... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | In 1838, HM
met the British diplomat David Urquhart
, who was known for his championship of Turkey against Russia. Although she recorded her dislike for his social egotism and misogynistic opinions, his hatred and... |
Friends, Associates | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with... |
Friends, Associates | Florence Nightingale | In 1842, she met Richard Monckton Milnes
, who later proposed to her. Strachey, Ray. The Cause: A Short History of the Women’s Movement in Great Britain. Virago, 1978. 20, 71 Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice, 2002. xix, xxi, xxiii Cook, Edward. The Life of Florence Nightingale. Macmillan, 1913. 65, 67 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | JWC
had Monckton Milnes
(who had brought her the news) stay until Thomas returned to break the news to him too. Thomas's words on Lady Harriet's death—I have indeed lost such a friend as... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Norton | In the mid-1840s CN
acquired some new friends: biographer John Gibson Lockhart
, author Alexander William Kinglake
, rising young statesman Sidney Herbert
(direct descendant of the Countess of Pembroke
), and the intellectual translator... |
Timeline
April 1862
The Senate of the University of London voted against allowing women into their medical degree programme.
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