Knight, Ellis Cornelia. The Autobiography of Miss Knight. Editor Fulford, Roger, William Kimber & Co.
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Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | On their previous visit to Naples in 1785, the Knights had met Sir William Hamilton
, the British ambassador there, as well as the rulers, Ferdinand
and Maria Carolina
. On their return to Naples... |
Residence | Ellis Cornelia Knight | They fled from Naples, capital of the kingdom of Naples and Sicily or the Two Sicilies, at about the same time as its king. The royal family (Ferdinand
and Maria Carolina
) escaped from... |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | As her mother had wished, once back in England ECK
placed herself under the protection of powerful friends made abroad: Sir William Hamilton
(British Ambassador to the court of the Two Sicilies), his wife Emma, Lady Hamilton |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | The rumours continued to plague all those concerned after the Hamiltons and Nelson returned to England (by which time, in fact, Emma Hamilton
was pregnant by Nelson
). Knight, Ellis Cornelia. The Autobiography of Miss Knight. Editor Fulford, Roger, William Kimber & Co. 78 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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. 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. 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... |
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 |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Seacole | Mary Grant
married Edwin Horatio Seacole
(a godson of Lord Nelson
), who died in 1844. Uglow, Jennifer S., and Frances Hinton, editors. Continuum Dictionary of Women’s Biography. Continuum. 490 Anionwu, Elizabeth. Mary Seacole, 1805-1881. http://www.wolfson.tvu.ac.uk/maryseacole/pages/index.html. |
Publishing | Evelyn Sharp | ES
took up full-time the great profession of journalism in 1904, Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 93 |
Textual Production | Robert Southey | RS
published in two volumes what became a classic biography, The Life of Nelson. 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. |
Friends, Associates | Melesina Trench | Wherever she went on her first European trip she had access to exclusive circles of society. She met Nelson
and his mistress, Emma, Lady Hamilton
, the writer Antoine de Rivarol
, Napoleon's brother Lucien Bonaparte |
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... |
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