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Horatio Nelson
Standard Name: Nelson, Horatio
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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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Melesina Trench | Her travel journal (and the excerpt given in The Times) records trenchant criticisms of Horatio Nelson
and particularly of his mistress, Emma, Lady Hamilton
, who failed in several respects to live up to... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Helen Maria Williams | Published in two volumes, by G. G. and J. Robinson
, this opens with further discussion of Switzerland, after a preface written with maturity and confidence in her own ability to deflect hostile criticism... |
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
... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances O'Neill | The volume includes poems of natural description, of meditation, and of political comment. FON
expresses delight at the election victory on 9 August 1802 (in John Wilkes's old constituency of Middlesex) of Sir Francis Burdett |
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... |
Textual Production | Ellis Cornelia Knight | While in Naples in 1798, ECK
composed The Battle of the Nile: a Pindarick Ode to celebrate a famous victory of Nelson
's. This she published in Vienna in the year 1800. Luttrell, Barbara. The Prim Romantic. Chatto and Windus. 103 |
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... |
Textual Production | Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny | Collingwood, after a distinguished naval career which famously included taking over commnd of the British fleet when Nelson
was killed at Trafalgar, died at sea on 7 March 1810. His body landed at Greenwich... |
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... |
Textual Production | Carola Oman | CO
's biography of Britain's national naval hero, Nelson (probably her best-known achievement), appeared in the USA the year before its English publication, likely on account of wartime paper shortages. Oman, Carola. Nelson. Doubleday. vi British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Carola Oman | CO
's work on a series of leaders from the time of the Napoleonic wars resulted in an invitation to lecture to the Royal Society of Literature
about reading the writings of Nelson
, Collingwood |
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 | 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. |
Timeline
1-3 August 1798: In the Battle of the Nile (also known as...
National or international item
1-3 August 1798
In the Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir (or Abu Qir) Bay), the British fleet
under Nelson
attacked and in large part destroyed the fleet of revolutionary France.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Nelson
21 October 1805: Britain defeated Napoleonic France in a battle...
National or international item
21 October 1805
Britain defeated Napoleonic France in a battle off Cape Trafalgar; Nelson
was fatally wounded.
1843: Thirty-eight years after the British naval...
Building item
1843
Thirty-eight years after the British naval victory of Trafalgar, the basic structure of Nelson
's Column, erected in the newly developed Trafalgar Square in honour of the victor, was finally completed.
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