Benjamin Disraeli

She took her pseudonym from Benjamin Disraeli 's Vivian Grey, as she explains herself in her essay Are Remarkable People Remarkable-Looking? (An Extravaganza) She there writes that Lord Beaconsfield had spoken of me as...

SG learned to read fairly late, but then read voraciously. The glowing Eastern landscapes and brilliant figures of Disraeli 's Alroy and Thomas Moore 's Lalla Rookh made a particular impression. She also developed...

In an extraordinary passage near the end of the book, Cecil lists a number of people who might, if they could only work together, revolutionize the country. The names he mentions include actual...

CG 's friends included Benjamin Disraeli (with whom she shared poetical enthusiasms before her first marriage), and her cousin Henry Layard , who became famous as an archaeologist (the discoverer of ancient Nineveh) and who...

Lady CG 's friend Benjamin Disraeli portrayed her in her unmarried youth in Sybil, 1845, as Lady Joan Fitz Warene, who is not quite beautiful but intellectually brilliant. Her fame for later generations...

In 1868 a petition to Benjamin Disraeli on behalf of JH resulted in an award of £50 from the Royal Bounty Fund. She also received a visit from a son—or possibly a general—of Italian unification...

The protagonist of the novel, which is set primarily in the 1860s, is Robert de Hausée Orange, an idealistic orphan whose various adventures lead him through from Normandy in France to England, English politics, and...

More recently, Margaret Maison characterised The School For Saints as a strange mixture of Disraeli , Hardy , Ouida , and Meredith . . . and there are even echoes of the old bigamy novels...

The New York Times reported in 1902 that on the strength of The School For Saints, JOH had been asked to write a biography of Benjamin Disraeli . If she began this project, she...

She had been still writing it in the USA and after her return to London at the beginning of this year after its serialization had begun. A New York edition posthumously published this month...

Reports such as Horne's also provided writers of protest literature such as Benjamin Disraeli , Charles Dickens , and Elizabeth Gaskell with material which they incorporated into their fiction. Elizabeth Barrett 's The Cry of...

NJ 's father, Samuel Jacob , had started life in Germany, the country to which his father had fled as a boy from Poland, after his parents were killed in pogroms. Longer ago...

In great need of money, Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde , began contributing to the Burlington Magazine; her first article blasted critics of Disraeli 's novel Endymion.

Following the death of her husband , JFLW wrote to Sir Thomas Larcom , hoping he could help secure her a government pension. In his reply, Larcom explained that only the Prime Minister could...

EJ wrote a petition to Prime Minister Disraeli that resulted in a grant of £50 from the Royal Bounty.