Richard Monckton Milnes

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

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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, 2 vols.
65, 67
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 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, 1981.
134-5
Literary responses Matilda Betham-Edwards
Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton , was quoted as calling Kittythe best novel I have ever read,
qtd. in
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
126
and as demanding about the character Polly Cornford, Where on earth . . . did you...
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/.
politics Matilda Betham-Edwards
Though MBE attended, together with a male friend, a meeting of the International Working Men's Association presided over by Karl Marx , she did so more as an observer than as a sympathiser. She felt...
politics Emily Faithfull
The central concern of this society was educational and industrial reform; papers presented and discussed at the VDS meetings dealt not only with every aspect of women's work but also with sundry political, social and...
Publishing Elizabeth Gaskell
EG sent a copy to her friend Richard Monckton Milnes with thanks for his approval of the book. She wanted endorsement because she felt so anxious about her, and took so much over writing it...
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, Bishop of Salisbury, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, 1892, p. xii - xx.
ix
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...
Textual Production Mary Harcourt
The Philobiblon Society published just under sixty pages of MH 's Mrs. Harcourt's Diary of the Court of George III as item six in volume 13 of Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, probably edited...
Textual Production Mary Harcourt
MH kept a diary during her time as a courtier during the reign of George III . Parts of it were published during the late-nineteenth century, but it seems the only parts deemed worthy of...

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