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Friends, Associates | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | Her many literary friendships, maintained in part by correspondence, included those with Joanna Baillie
and Mary Russell Mitford
(who first met each other in her drawing-room), Catherine Fanshawe
, and Mary Tighe
(with whom she... |
Occupation | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | BBBD
was a woman whose talent and energy found many other outlets besides writing. She performed as a fortune-teller at a social gathering. Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray. 18 |
Textual Features | Eva Mary Bell | 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... |
Leisure and Society | Mary Boyle | MB
had a lifelong interest in the theatre; she attended performances frequently and she, her family, and friends were frequently involved in acting and producing plays privately. On one occasion in 1837 she found herself... |
Travel | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | 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. Stone, Lawrence. Broken Lives. Oxford University Press. 300 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | According to her first daughter-in-law
writing years later, MACB
suggested, while she and the young people were in Paris, that Emily ought to advance her husband's career by either sleeping with or at least... |
Travel | Charlotte Brontë | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Eleanor Butler | Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward
, Henrietta Maria Bowdler
(who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB
as her veillard [sic] or old... |
Leisure and Society | Augusta Ada Byron | In the spring of 1833 AAB
was presented at Court, where she met the Duke of Wellington
among others. Byron, Augusta Ada. Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers. Editor Toole, Betty A., Strawberry Press. 45 Byron, Augusta Ada. Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers. Editor Toole, Betty A., Strawberry Press. 47 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | JWC
watched the Duke of Wellington
's elaborately staged funeral procession from Bath House. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell. 222 Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century. 272 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Charles | 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. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Power Cobbe | Before his marriage Charles Cobbe
served as a cornet in India with the 19th Light Dragoons
; his commission was in part lent by his commander, Arthur Wellesley
, the future Duke of Wellington. He... |
Textual Production | May Crommelin | 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... |
Textual Features | Antonia Fraser | 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... |
Residence | Georgiana Fullerton | After leaving Staffordshire the Leveson-Gower family moved to Suffolk to live at Wherstead Lodge near Ispwich. Craven, Pauline. Life of Lady Georgiana Fullerton. Translator Coleridge, Henry James, R. Bentley and Son. 7 |
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