Arthur Wellesley first Duke of Wellington

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...

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...

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...

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 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 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...