David Livingstone

About a month later she wrote that thirty-five cabmen used the shelter regularly. So far, she wrote, it has worked more smoothly than I expected. She vigorously lobbied to retain a city-paid employee hired...

EH thought a perfect precept for biography was voiced by Shakespeare 's Othello: nothing extenuate, nor set down ought in malice. After publishing a life (that of Hugh, third Baron Delamere ) as her...

In 1861 came both The Cottage History of England and Family Pictures, which contains reminiscences from life. She wrote another volume of biography in Heroes of the Desert, The Story of the Lives and...

In 1895 EH contributed a preface to a new edition of Roden Noel 's Livingstone in Africa (a poem originally published in 1874). In 1901 she collaborated with John Addington Symonds in a privately printed...

In fact her writing personality is clearly discernible here. She makes exploration at second hand as vivid as she did her own travels as she constructs her record of the perseverance and energy of brave...

This examines the lives of Mary Livingstone (mid-Victorian daughter of a missionary in Africa, who married the more famous missionary David Livingstone , a colleague and protégé of her father), Fanny Stevenson (late Victorian...