The most famous element of this legend involves the disinterment of her corpse in the service of her husband's art. Rossetti had buried the manuscript of his poems with her, telling Ford Madox BrownI have often been writing at those poems when Lizzie was ill and suffering, and I might have been attending to her, and now they shall go. He came to regret this act of penitence, however, and allowed friends to convince him that the poems should be retrieved so that they could be published.

As writing poetry and mixing with poets began to take up more of Sexton's life, her husband, Kayo , came to hate it more and more. Their rows about poetry regularly ended in his hitting her; on one occasion she began the violence by tearing up poems and throwing her typewriter across the room. (She had already frightened herself by using violence against her children.) A tearful reconciliation would follow these marital fights. Another source of friction (and on occasion violence) was the large role played by Kayo's mother, Billie, in caring for the children (which Anne both resented and relied on).

MS worked on the battlefields of Crimea, at times under fire, unlike other nurses who usually worked in hospitals some distance from the field.

Her parents constantly desired me to bear pain like a Philosopher or a Stoic—literal pain, that is: they burned her hand, leaving a scar.

Beginning when she was sixteen, VSW 's godfather, the Hon. Kenneth Hallyburton Campbell , more than once attempted to rape her. She later related several narrow escapes, and felt they had had a serious long-term effect.

When the bombing of Cardiff docks began, the Reuben family moved in with their grandmother, largely out of family solidarity. But they had no basement and no bomb shelter, and they were not on speaking terms with the next-door neighbour, a Mrs Price, who had a cellar but who ran a brothel. After the first near hit, when their windows were blown in while the children cowered under the table, Mrs Price came round and invited the Rubenses to share her cellar. They accepted, and were in the cellar when the next night the other side of the street, though not their own, was obliterated.

During these rows the couple's acquaintances feared serious violence from Jorge. It was indeed violence which ended the relationship, but not till after a short-lived marriage.

Biographer Jan Marsh speculates, on the basis of CR 's oeuvre and of recent observations on the effects of child sexual abuse, that the breakdown, the retreat behind a mask, the bouts of depression, and the recurrent Freudian nightmares may have been the result of sexual assault. She notes that the teenaged CR had been left alone during the days with her father in the wake of his professional failure.

After her father was beheaded, MR performed the unimaginable task of getting the head down from its spike on Tower Bridge and taking it home with her. She was accused of cherishing it as a relic, and is thought to have been buried with it.

MR describes the threats of violence hurled at the feminist group and a gay men's group. Members of both were arrested and later fined three pounds each for insulting behaviour.

One of the nursemaids several times shook her violently and at length, but having promised not to tell her parents she never did so.

The crowd afterwards turned ugly and started mauling Mackworth and her companion, a young Scotswoman. They were defended by three young men who led them into a hotel lobby for protection against the mob.

The Critical Review did not suppose that MFCP 's first novel was autobiographical throughout, but only in its Irish passages. It does not therefore imply that MFCP went through and survived the Terror in Paris, though this too is not entirely impossible.

During the rebellion known as the Pilgrimage of Grace, hostile rebels ransacked the Latimer stronghold, Snape Castle in Yorkshire, where KP (then Lady Latimer) was left unprotected with her stepchildren.

Not only had the occupying troops burned the furniture and staircases, defaced the pictures or shot them full of holes: out of the dungheaps covering the gardens were retrieved letters or scraps of letters from Maria Edgeworth , Harriet Beecher Stowe , Stendhal , Lamartine , and Victor Hugo . Letters and manuscripts of Byron were never found.

During the WSPU demonstration on 12 November 1910, which came to be known as Black Friday, police attacked suffragette demonstrators at Westminster, and two women died as a result. CP 's sister Sylvia and Annie Kenney were present to take notes.

She explains that having been assaulted in a park in London was a catalyst for her itinerant lifestyle: aside from being extremely startling and a nuisance, he seemed to be validation of that impulse to try to find a place that suits me (or a place I could become suited to).

Ouida wrote to her friend W. S. Blunt expressing fear for her life; biographer Jane Jordan thinks this fear related to problems with her tenancy.

SG 's parents had a troubled marriage. Her father's depression, alcoholism, and his affairs with a succession of governesses and maids made for a difficult home life. He was controlling and sometimes violent; at one point he even threw a knife at his wife.SG bore witness to several such unpleasant scenes in her childhood, as well as to her father's threats of suicide.

In October 2006 NG was threatened and manhandled by thieves who broke into her house and took jewellery and other items.

It was her husband's violence towards her that caused her to seek a separation.