OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Horatio Nelson
Standard Name: Nelson, Horatio
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Textual Production | Ellis Cornelia Knight | An album centred on Nelson, the Hamiltons, and the Knights, containing several poems by ECK
in both print and manuscript, was sold at auction in the early 1990s and broken up. Other poems severed from... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Ellis Cornelia Knight | During ECK
's stay on the Foudroyant, Nelson
's flagship, in 1800, she began a sketchbook which contains thirty-seven watercolours. It is inscribed: This book was commenced at Palermo in Sicily, 1800. Finished at Windsor, 1806. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ellis Cornelia Knight | ECK
relates her experiences at the English and at various European courts, and includes sketches and anecdotes of famous people she knew, including those of an earlier generation like Samuel Johnson
and Frances Reynolds
... |
Textual Features | Harriett Jay | The play takes as its subject Admiral Horatio Nelson
, who is the victim of a murderous attack in the port of Dover by a Royal Navy
captain (who has been suborned into the employ... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Gatty | Margaret's father, the Rev. Alexander John Scott
, had been chaplain to Nelson
on the Victory. As well as a naval chaplain he was a passionate lover of books and music and, unofficially, a diplomat... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Julia Frankau | Lady Hamilton is, in these introductory pages, the notorious adventuress, sometime Emy Lyon, but ultimately the wife of Sir William Hamilton
, who was guilty of many lapses from virtue both before and after her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | May Edginton | 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... |
Textual Production | Clemence Dane | |
Textual Production | Clemence Dane | CD
published a novel entitled He Brings Great News, inspired by her recent editing of Nelson
, which treats the battle of Trafalgar. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. 10: 134 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Travel | Anne Damer | In the first winter of her widowhood AD
went abroad to study art. Later she escaped newspaper harrassment by travelling to Italy: Rome and Florence (where she met Walpole's friend Horace Mann
). This voyage... |
Textual Production | Anne Damer | AD
's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they... |
Textual Production | Hannah Cowley | HC
sometimes wrote occasional poems in her retirement. After the death of Nelson
on 21 October 1805 she wrote, not an elegy but a sardonic comment in verse on somebody else's elegy. She wrote a... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Bentley | EB
published at Norwich an ode on Nelson
's death at the battle of Trafalgar. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Occupation | William Beckford | WB
entertained Nelson
and Sir William
and Lady Hamilton
in fantastic splendour at Fonthill. Clarke, Stephen. “Abbeys Real and Imagined: Northanger, Fonthill and Aspects of the Gothic Revival”. Persuasions, Vol. 20 , pp. 93-105. 102-3 |
Textual Features | Hélène Barcynska | In their love lives each narrowly avoids disaster but only Vista is destined for happiness. Maggy takes as her model Emma Hamilton
, the poor girl who became Nelson
's mistress, and dreams of a... |
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