Craven, Pauline. Life of Lady Georgiana Fullerton. Translator Coleridge, Henry James, 2nd revised, R. Bentley and Son, 1888.
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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, 2nd revised, R. Bentley and Son, 1888. 7 |
Reception | Catherine Gore | Charlotte Brontë
wrote to CG
to voice her admiration: not the echo of another mind—the pale reflection of a reflection—but the result of original observation, and faithful delineation from actual life. qtd. in Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 129 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucille Iremonger | 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... |
Occupation | Anna Brownell Jameson | Mrs Littleton
was a niece of the Duke of Wellington
. Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967. 17 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Annie Keary | AK
's father, William Keary, was the only son of an Irish gentleman Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan, 1882. 2 |
Travel | Lady Caroline Lamb | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Cecily Mackworth | CM
writes in her unpublished autobiography about the eleven siblings of her father, Francis Julian Mackworth
. Mackworth, Cecily. Out of the Black Mountains. 2006. 5 Bowker, Gordon. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. The Independent, 1 Aug. 2006. |
Reception | Harriet Martineau | Guizot
, the French Minister of Public Instruction, was ordered by Louis Philippe
to translate the Illustrations for the French national schools. He considered HM
to be the only woman ever to have affected legislation... |
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 |
politics | Amelia Opie | AO
's admiration for military heroes also extended to Kosciusko
and later to the Duke of Wellington
and General Lafayette
. In other respects, however, she fully shared the anti-war stance of her fellow Quakers. Mahon, Penny. “In Sermon and Story: contrasting anti-war rhetoric in the work of Anna Barbauld and Amelia Opie”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 1, 2000, pp. 23-38. 32 |
Travel | Elizabeth Rigby | 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
. Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols. 1: 299 Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961. 100 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Smythies | 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... |
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