Edward Lane

IHR was introduced to Edward Lane , then a handsome twenty-seven-year-old medical student, at a party. She was entranced, though she was ten years older than he was and he, like her, was married. She...

During one stay at Moor ParkIHR became particularly close to Edward Lane . In a diary entry dated 7 October 1854, she describes a nervous and confused, and eager kiss that occurred while they...

After meeting Edward Lane , she paid many visits to receive water therapy at the hydropathic establishment he ran at Moor Park at Farnham in Surrey (once the home of seventeenth-century letter-writer Dorothy Osborne ...

The background to her diary was the fact that her marriage with Henry Robinson was not a happy union. She started writing during a period of loneliness and poor health in 1849, when Henry was...

After the scandal, those involved returned to lives of relative anonymity. The impact on Edward Lane 's professional life was negligible. He continued to recieve patients at Moor Park (among them Charles Darwin ), and...

It was a difficult case, because the wife's betrayal was not revealed by concrete evidence, but only implied in writing. Only one witness, a stable boy, testified to improper familiarities taking place, but his testimony...

In her personal diary during these years, IHR recorded her feelings about her frustrating home life and her uninspired marriage, but more especially her romantic longings, and her friendship, infatuation, and affair with Edward Lane