Craven, Pauline. Life of Lady Georgiana Fullerton. Translator Coleridge, Henry James, R. Bentley and Son.
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Residence | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | 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... |
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 |
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. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 129 |
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 |
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... |
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, pp. 23-38. 32 |
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 |
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. 17 |
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 |
Leisure and Society | Germaine de Staël | Her next salon was frequented by such luminaries as Alexander I
, Talleyrand
, and the Duke of Wellington
. Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , pp. 12-35. 32 |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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