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In her introduction EH , anonymously, says she is opposed to romances, novels, and whatever carries the air of them. She will not, she says, exaggerate good or bad qualities, but give the unvarnished...

EDP explained to her American readers that the eponymous heroine of Peter's Mother, Lady Mary Crewys, was typical of an Englishwoman of a certain class in being isolated and guarded from all practical knowledge...

HS 's two villains are in truth fairly familiar, as are her two heroes, Henry Fitzherbert and Edgar Aubrey, and her two heroines, Camilla St Clair and Emily Harland. Fitzherbert takes most of the narrative...

The story takes place against the background of the Great Famine (which is just about to begin when the novel opens, in 1845) and the Young Ireland Rebellion of July 1848. The young Dalys, offspring...

The book was attacked on its appearance as anti-Christian, in an open letter to the press, signed by most of the Establishment including both English archbishops and the headmasters of Eton and Harrow . NM

Within a few years Jessie White Mario was frequently quoting Casa Guidi Windows in her campaign for the Italian cause, and after her death the City of Florence marked EBB 's contribution to unification with...

EG 's close friend Lady Warwick , when shown the finished manuscript of this book, warned EG not to publish it, or she would tarnish or ruin her reputation. Indeed, the novel did...

Her title-page quotes a wish voiced on 1 December 1814 in the House of Lords that it were possible to summon Sobieski to attend the Congress of Vienna which was even then deciding the political...

NC published a poem for the first time, in the Eton College Chronicle.

From these tours she moved on to lecturing at the South Kensington Museum until about 1894. Her audiences were comprised mostly of middle- and upper-class women, and she spoke of the benefits of intellectual...

The novel proper traces Harry Melbourne from his babyhood in the care of labouring-class foster-parents in Cumberland, through his early education by the local parson and his sister, his attendance at Eton and Cambridge

In JS 's original concept, her heroine moved on the fringes of high society, as her name implies. Miniver derives from vair, which is merely squirrel fur but is used in ceremonial costume, it also...

Most reviews were mocking in tone, in keeping with the late image of Waugh as a kind of Colonel Blimp. Philip Larkin wrote that to be one of his correspondents one would have to have...

After leaving Eton , he met Lady Pauline and Walter Trevelyan , who became longtime friends and supporters. At Oxford he was first introduced to the Pre-Raphaelites , and he forged friendships with Dante Gabriel Rossetti

EA gave birth, resentfully, to her son, Henning Bernd (H. B.), in England on 27 October 1902. Growing up in England and attending Eton during the First World War, he displayed a kind of heroism...