Benjamin Disraeli

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...

By the time Agatha was born, Clara Miller believed that girls ought not to learn to read before the age of eight. Defiantly, Agatha taught herself to read at five. She eagerly devoured Lewis Carroll

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...

He was caricatured in works by Benjamin Disraeli ,Thomas Love Peacock , Sydney Morgan herself, and her sister Olivia Clarke . While the story that he caused the death of Keats is long since...

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...

Francis Baily was a novelist and one-time editor of Royal Magazine. It was in the context of the magazine that they met, as ME was one of its contributors. Baily was the author from...

On 11 February 1848 GE discusses in a letter to John Sibree her views on Hannah More (once admired, now detested as exemplifying the bluestocking woman on display as a kind of freak), 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...