Richard Monckton Milnes

Standard Name: Milnes, Richard Monckton
Used Form: Richard Monckton Milnes,,, first Baron Houghton
Used Form: Lord Houghton

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Anne Mozley
Wordsworth observed of her poetry anthologies in general that they mixed the contemporary with the canonical: Spenser , Cowley . . . stand side by side with Monckton Milnes and Miss Barrett .
Wordsworth, John, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, p. xii - xx.
ix
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.
166: 270
Nightingale, Florence. Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale. Editors Vicinus, Martha and Bea Nergaard, Harvard University Press.
40
Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice.
xix, 43
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.
20, 71
Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice.
xix, xxi, xxiii
Cook, Edward. The Life of Florence Nightingale. Macmillan.
65, 67
Textual Features Florence Nightingale
FN 's report is based on her testimony to the Royal Commission. Its chapters and appendices deal with military medical practices. They touch on a wide range of topics, including mortality rates, sanitation, military wives...
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...
Friends, Associates Ouida
Aside from her mother, Ouida kept mainly male company. Her circle included (in addition to her publishers William Harrison Ainsworth and William Tinsley ) A. C. Swinburne , Richard Monckton Milnes (famed for his large...
Occupation Coventry Patmore
With help from his friends Adelaide Procter and Richard Monckton Milnes , CP was taken on as a supernumerary assistant in the department of printed books at the British Museum .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
35
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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
ER appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy , where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron (Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray . At London parties...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Rigby
In 1854 she met Charles Kingsley at a dinner given by Richard Monckton Milnes . Henry Layard, the traveller and archaeologist, also became a friend. Harriet Grote was another new and close friend, and...
Friends, Associates Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Anne Thackeray (later ATR ) spent Easter at Richard Monckton Milnes 's home, where she met Swinburne .
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
134-5
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 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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Of Eliot he wrote: this gifted woman was...

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