Giuseppe Garibaldi

She was a friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne (whom she never met, but of whose wife and family she remained a faithful friend and correspondent after Hawthorne's death), Bulwer Lytton , and Charles Kingsley (all of...

FMP 's uncle Colonel John Whitehead Peard was a barrister who gave up the law to fight with Garibaldi 's forces in the campaign for Italian unification. In 1869 he was Sheriff of Cornwall.

The groom spoke no almost no English. The couple had been engaged before their arrest, but most of their courtship played out by letter during their incarceration. Though Alberto shared his wife's commitment to the...

LV 's father, James White , was a silk merchant during her childhood and adolescence. His career forced him to move to China in 1841, and his family followed shortly afterwards without the five- or...

DB 's youngest sister, Marjorie Colville (Gumbo) Strachey (1882-1964), was a teacher, suffragist, writer, and member of the group Woolf called the Neo-Pagans group (which included Rupert Brooke , Gwen Raverat , Ka Cox ...

JWM 's husband was against Garibaldi 's offer of support for France in its war against Prussia, largely because France had occupied parts of Italy. This time he refused to join Jessie when she travelled into battle.

She arrived in London determined to study medicine so that she could serve as a field nurse during Garibaldi 's campaigns. She was refused entry to fourteen London hospitals. On 10 July 1856, a representative...