Regan, Patrick. “Harriett Jay Reviews”. Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901).
Crystal Palace
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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| Occupation | Harriett Jay | HJ
first appeared as an actress in the title role of the theatrical adaptation of her novel The Queen of Connaught at the Crystal Palace
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Performance of text | Ethel Smyth | ES
's orchestral debut took place when August Manns
accepted her Serenade for his programme at the Crystal Palace (south of London at Sydenham). Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994. 429 Smyth, Ethel, and Ronald Crichton. The Memoirs of Ethel Smyth. Viking, 1987. 161 |
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1836: A giant water lily, native to the Amazon...
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1836
A giant water lily, native to the Amazon and South America, was discovered in British Guiana ; the next year it was named Victoria Regia (later Victoria Amazonica) in honour of Queen Victoria
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Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
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Guyana’s National Flower. http://www.caribcentral.com/guyana/guybird_flower.htm.
11 October 1851: The Great Exhibition closed....
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11 October 1851
The Great Exhibition closed.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
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