Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington

MACB spent the winter of 1815-16 in Paris, where her son and daughter-in-law were also staying, and where the Duke of Wellington was holding court after the battle of Waterloo.

LCL was visiting Paris, where the Bourbon monarchy had just been restored. She was in the train of the Duke of Wellington , who had been appointed ambassador there (and had received his ducal...

CB also had a confrontation with George Henry Lewes . She attended the House of Commons , the Chapel Royal , where she saw her hero the Duke of Wellington , and a meeting of...

ER and her husband, Sir Charles Eastlake , cut their holiday short and left Venice for London to attend the November funeral of the Duke of Wellington .

The novel tells the story of its female narrator's life during the evangelical revival in the Napoleonic era, [and] proposes religion as the antidote for revolution. Bride Danescombe opens her narrative of her life with...

The first canto of the poem, in a mix of heroic couplets and quatrains in the same iambic pentameter line, expresses loyal indignation at the cowardly tumult raised against a prince who is defenceless as...

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 .

Her research uncovered the fact that fifteen out of twenty-four prime ministers from Wellington to Chamberlain were orphans or illegitimate—even though the 1921 census, soon after the steep rise in mortality brought by the first...

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

MC continued to publish during the second decade of the twentieth century; only some of this late output is mentioned here. She returned to Ulster for The Golden Bow, 1912, whose heroine has an...

Susan Buchan (later ST ) published her first biography, taking as a subject one of her collateral ancestors, The Sword of State: Wellington after Waterloo.

This book is character-driven in AF 's accustomed manner, featuring Whig reformers, Tory reactionaries, and those dubbed revolutionaries like Daniel O'Connell and William Cobbett . Its story opens in November 1831 with a famous pronouncement...

The novel oddly mixes rendering its central characters' inner lives with bald enumeration of armies, battles, forced marches. It follows George Thomas through his extraordinary conquest of the Punjab, through a growing melancholy and...

The novel is unashamedly partisan. Paula R. Feldman calls it a roman à clef. The rhetoric of repeal is introduced through the figure of Jim Cassidy, Grace's husband, who has already excused breaking his oath...

The Memoirs' opening moves smoothly from the famous shock of the first sentence into a tone of judicious complexity: I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the...