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Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington
Standard Name: Wellington, Arthur Wellesley,,, first Duke of
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Maria Tucker | CMT
's father, Henry St George Tucker
, lived in India from the age of fourteen to that of thirty-nine. A prominent citizen of Bengal, with expertise in Indian affairs and finance, he eventually became... |
| Leisure and Society | Charlotte Maria Tucker | The Tuckers had an active social life. The children acted in their father's plays, and as they grew older the family often entertained at home or attended dinner parties. The fancy-dress ball they gave for... |
| Textual Production | Susan Tweedsmuir | Susan Buchan (later ST
) published her first biography, taking as a subject one of her collateral ancestors, The Sword of State: Wellington
after Waterloo. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Susan Tweedsmuir | Through her father ST
was great-great-niece of the first Duke of Wellington
. Tweedsmuir, Susan. The Lilac and the Rose. G. Duckworth. 15 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Harriette Wilson | While she was kept by the Marquess of Lorne, HW
indulged herself in a brief affair with the future Duke of Wellington
, who was at the time no celebrity and no strong attraction to... |
| Textual Features | Harriette Wilson | 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... |
| Reception | Harriette Wilson | The apochryphal story that the Duke of Wellington
returned one of Wilson's blackmailing letters with the scribbled annotation write and be d—d (universally converted by folklore to publish and be damned) Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber. 209 |
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