Benjamin Disraeli

Her work for the annuals led to her connection with Lady Blessington and her niece Marguerite Power . Despite the disapproval of other friends she was a regular visitor to Blessington's home, Gore House...

After Benjamin Disraeli first became Prime Minister, somewhat briefly, on 27 April 1866, Victoria encountered a type of politician which was new to her. Prince Albert had distrusted Disraeli and favoured Gladstone ; Victoria found...

After meeting AW , Benjamin Disraeli described her as awfully revolutionary.

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...

In London in 1824 she had a socially unsuccessful meeting with Wordsworth , who was by now a thorough reactionary in politics. He went to some pains to snub her; she refused to notice this...

MB met Lord Derby and Benjamin Disraeli at Burghley House in Stamford, when, despite their repeal four years earlier, the strife over the Corn Laws was still raging.

Before her marriage CN had formed a friendship with the Irish poet Tom Moore , once a crony of her famous grandfather; this friendship endured into her middle age. It was also as Richard Brinsley...

His friends included Benjamin Disraeli , Charles Dickens , John Forster , and Thomas Babington Macaulay . Later in life he conducted a long, mentoring friendship by letter with Mary Elizabeth Braddon . He also...

EAP met Mary Russell Mitford in summer 1822 at the London house of Mrs Vardill: presumably the mother of the Romantic poet Anna Jane Vardill . Vardill was a friend and associate from...

The other great love of her life, her husband, was equally productive for fictionalized versions of her character and doings. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography cites among novels dealing with her marriage Thomas Lister

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...

CN was depicted as Berengaria Montford by Disraeli in Endymion (written in the 1830s but unpublished until 1880). George Meredith said he based the heroine of Diana of the Crossways, 1885, partly on her...

AAB has appeared as a central character in numerous literary works ranging from Disraeli 's novel Venetia, 1837, to Arthur C. Clarke 's The Ghost from the Grand Banks, 1990. In the world...

Max Mallowan worked for Leonard and Katharine Woolley on their archaeological dig in Ur. He and AC met when she returned to Ur for a second visit in February 1930. They spent a good deal...

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...