Arthur Wellesley first Duke of Wellington

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...

BBBD was a woman whose talent and energy found many other outlets besides writing. She performed as a fortune-teller at a social gathering.Fanny Kemble in Recollections of a Girlhood remembered her as a...

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...

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 new house was one of the first completed on a new estate by builder-entrepreneur Thomas Cubitt . In January 1838, when she and her husband moved in, the area was still green, almost rural...

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...

Despite her relative poverty, MB moved easily in circles of the great and the good. Her closest friends were Anne Damer (whose death in 1828 was a terrible loss), Joanna Baillie (whom in 1831 she...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

In the spring of 1833 AAB was presented at Court, where she met the Duke of Wellington among others. Ada began at this time to express to her mother a desire for increased independence.

JWC watched the Duke of Wellington 's elaborately staged funeral procession from Bath House.

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...