“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Royal Artillery
Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | Diana Athill | DA
's father, Lawrence Francis Imbert Athill
, |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Anne Barker | Mary Anne Stewart
was married in the cathedral at Spanish Town, Jamaica, to George Robert Barker
(fourteen years her senior), a captain in the Royal Artillery
who had been her father's aide-de-camp for about... |
Family and Intimate relationships | May Cannan | In fact, before sailing for France with the Royal Artillery
, he applied for just a few hours' leave to travel to Oxford and propose marriage to May. His request for leave was turned down... |
Family and Intimate relationships | John Strange Winter | Her father, the Reverend Henry Vaughan Palmer
, Rector of St Margaret's Church in York, was, she says, a scholarly gentleman, whose influence counterbalanced his daughter's resistance to learning during her youth. Bainton, George, editor. The Art of Authorship. J. Clarke, 1890. 24 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Githa Sowerby | John Kendall
had retired from the Royal Artillery
in 1904, a year after he was sent home from India because of illness. He returned to the army during the First World War as a Major... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Smyth | ES
's father, Major-General John Hall Smyth
of the Royal Artillery
, firmly opposed her career in music, as he believed that all artists, like foreigners, were of low moral fibre. Collis, Louise. Impetuous Heart: The Story of Ethel Smyth. William Kimber, 1984. 12 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Winifred Peck | She said she married to get away from her family's theological discussions, and with the feeling that James Peck would keep her safe. Fitzgerald, Penelope. The Knox Brothers. Fourth Estate, 2002. 107-8 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Theresa Longworth | He was an officer in the Royal Artillery
, until he was suspended from his military duties in March 1861 following the scandal of his contested marriage. At his father's death on 24 October 1870... |
Textual Features | Catherine Marsh | |
Travel | Mary Anne Barker | MAB
arrived at Calcutta in India (where her husband
had accepted command of the Bengal Royal Artillery
following the Indian Mutiny) on a ship badly damaged by a hurricane. Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009. 63 Barker, Mary Anne. Colonial Memories. Smith, Elder, 1904. x |
Timeline
By June 1827: Edward Stanley, late of the Royal Artillery,...
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By June 1827
Edward Stanley
, late of the Royal Artillery
, published The Young Horsewoman's Compendium of the Modern Art of Riding.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
36 (1827): 301, 603
1997: Women members of the Royal Engineers and...
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1997
Women members of the Royal Engineers
and the Royal Artillery
were this year allowed to take positions at the front, although British infantry, submarine, and tank positions were still restricted to men.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
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