Giuseppe Garibaldi

The book makes another shift in tone as well as setting when the Franco-Prussian war looms; Gauthier confesses that as a man of action he is personally glad to see war. He leaves London, and...

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 ...

EBB was again much involved in sympathy with Italian hopes for independence and liberal reform, while Garibaldi as military leader and Cavour as statesman orchestrated the campaign which in October 1860 made Victor Emmanuel II

Included here were A Musical Instrument, a treatment of the Greek god Pan and of the distortions inflicted on the human life by a calling to poetry, which became one of her most anthologized...

The first published volume of future novelist MEB was a collection of verse entitled Garibaldi and Other Poems.

MEB 's first publications included verse in The Beverley Recorder. A patron, John Gilby , volunteered to underwrite the production and publication of a volume of her poetry, stipulating that the principal piece should...

Its first teacher was Elizabeth Whitehead , later the founder of the Working Women's College . Its eighty pupils included Catholics, Jews, Unitarians, and freethinkers. The school, which was heavily subsidised by Smith and cost...