Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Travel | Queen Victoria | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Queen Victoria | |
politics | George Sand | GS
met with Louis Napoléon
to plead successfully for the release of political prisoners captured during his coup d'état. Jack, Belinda. George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large. Vintage. 324-6 |
Travel | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Visiting Paris with her sister and father
, Anne Thackeray (later ATR
) saw Napoleon IIIriding down the Champs Élysées Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 54 Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 54 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ouida | Ouida
's father, Louis Ramé
—he was originally from France—had moved in the 1830s to Bury St Edmunds, where he taught French intermittently. He was rumoured, though without conclusive evidence, to have been a... |
politics | Mary Russell Mitford | In politics MRM
was known as a Foxite: that is, she supported the Whigs under Charles James Fox
, the more progressive opposition to the government. On 17 June 1814 she attended an Abolitionist meeting... |
Literary Setting | Harriet Martineau | Certainly the plot drags, the characterisation is wooden, and the book is weighed down by ponderous speeches. In the opening domestic scene, Toussaint's son is helped to read the word Epictetus
on the spine of... |
Textual Features | Harriet Martineau | As a character, Toussaint is highly idealised. He is distinguished from other slaves by lineage (an African royal grandfather like that of Behn
's Oroonoko before him), Martineau, Harriet. The Hour and the Man. AMS Press. 1: 120 |
Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | HM
had begun contributing to the Edinburgh Review in 1858 with a piece attacking Napoleon III
for reviving the slave trade. She continued these contributions until her illness forced her to end them in 1868.... |
Textual Production | Jessie White Mario | Jessie White (later JWM
) published her translation of the Italian revolutionary Felice Orsini
's graphic The Austrian Dungeons in Italy, which had not yet reached print. Orsini was later executed after making an... |
Literary responses | Jessie White Mario | After the inaugural lecture, the New York Herald called her words very chaste and poetical and her enunciation clear and distinct. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 75 |
Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | To her many friends and visitors Lady Blessington soon added the exiled Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
, John Forster
, and in the early 1840s, Charles Dickens
. Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey. 340-1, 376, 419-0 |
Residence | Maria Theresa Longworth | She was prompted to move to South Africa when she learned that Empress Eugénie
, widow of Napoleon III
, would be travelling there to visit the grave of her son, who had been killed... |
Textual Production | Norah Lofts | NL
published another work of historical fiction, A Rose for Virtue: The Very Private Life of Hortense
, Stepdaughter of Napoleon I
, Mother of Napoleon III. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 80 |
Health | Harriet Hamilton King | She writes that her health suffered greatly from dwelling so intensely on such a painful topic; and I had the sensation strongly that I was being dragged down to the grave by Orsini
, to... |
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