Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy KinghamEditor , Harper and Brothers, 1870.
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Sir John Moore
Standard Name: Moore, Sir John
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
wrote a poem To the Memory of Sir John Moore, which she sent her father two days later, with apology for attempting a subject too grand for her. |
| Textual Production | Carola Oman | CO
's work on a series of leaders from the time of the Napoleonic wars resulted in an invitation to lecture to the Royal Society of Literature
about reading the writings of Nelson
, Collingwood |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emma Parker | It opens with a brief eulogy of military commander John Moore
, then moves to soldiers in the story landing at Portsmouth on their return from the Peninsular War. Many are badly wounded; one, a... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Jane Vardill | AJV
translates from Sappho
, Anacreon
, Alcæus
, Theocritus
, Horace
, and more recent poets: Petrarch
and Camoens
. She includes several charity poems: the one already published in aid of the Refuge for the Destitute |
Timeline
20 December 1808-13 January 1809
British forces under Sir John Moore
(and the women accompanying them) suffered fearful hardship in retreating through the mountains towards Corunna in north-west Spain.