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Cultural formation | Sarah Tytler | Henrietta Keddie
was born into a large Scottish family. Her mother came from yeoman stock, and her father from a working-class family of unskilled labourers, many of whom worked in coal mines. He eventually became... |
Reception | Mary Somerville | Sir Robert Peel
, then prime minister, cited MS
's eminence in science and literature Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 156 Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 151, 156 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy
, where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron
(Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray
. At London parties... |
Reception | Caroline Norton | Between the death of Southey
, the Poet Laureate, and the appointment of Wordsworth
as his successor, CN
wrote to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel
, to request the position for herself. Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby. 220 |
Fictionalization | Caroline Norton | 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in Endymion (written in the 1830s but unpublished until 1880).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... |
politics | Harriet Martineau | HM
represents herself in her Autobiography as brokering the successful repeal of the Corn Laws which took place on 26 June 1846, by mediating between Robert Peel
and Richard Cobden
. Histories of the repeal... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | This book had a star-studded cast: sundry fashionable ladies, and notables like Byron
, Shelley
, Landor
, Disraeli
, the Duke of Wellington
, Lord John Russell
, Palmerston
, and Sir Robert Peel
. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Howitt | By the end of the 1840s, having launched their own magazine, the Howitts were again in financial difficulties, compelled to ask friends and relatives for help to tide them over. Particularly embarrassing losses were incurred... |
Wealth and Poverty | Felicia Hemans | Just before this she had received a grant of £100 from Prime Minister Robert Peel
, who made reference to her embarrassing pecuniary circumstances. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Reception | Felicia Hemans | Mary Russell Mitford
believed by May 1837 that FH
had received a pension from the Crown of £100 a year. In fact, Robert Peel
, the prime minister, had in the year of her death... |
Textual Features | Janet Hamilton | The vigour and originality of her voice on women's issues requires greater recognition, ranging as it does from the satiric Crinoline, to Contrasted Scenes from Real Life which juxtaposes the earthly lot of Lady Emily Hay |
Occupation | Benjamin Disraeli | After several failed attempts, BD
was elected to Parliament
as Conservative
member for Maidstone in Kent in 1837. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Reception | Frances Browne | Soon after her first poetry volume, The Star of Attéghéi, appeared, FB
was granted, by Prime Minister Robert Peel
, an annual pension of £20 from the Royal Bounty Fund
for literary achievement in... |
Dedications | Frances Browne | This she dedicated to the munificent patron of British literature,Sir Robert Peel
, then the Prime Minister, who had been instrumental in having her awarded an annual pension of £20 from the Royal Bounty Fund |
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