Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Angela Burdett-Coutts
Standard Name: Burdett-Coutts, Angela
Used Form: Baroness Burdett-Coutts
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Mary Louisa Molesworth | MLM
wrote relatively little about her metier. She published a handful of articles about her own work, and one about Juliana Horatia Ewing
, in magazines, and she contributed to The Art of Authorship: Literary... |
Friends, Associates | Louisa Stuart Costello | LSC
made many friends in England, notably including the baronet and politician Sir Francis Burdett
, his wife Lady Burdett
(born Sophia Coutts, member of a famous banking family), and their youngest daughter, who later... |
Friends, Associates | Hesba Stretton | HS
's notable friends and associates included Angela Burdett-Coutts
, Henrietta Synnot
, social reformer Octavia Hill
(a specialist in housing reform), French protestant historian J. H. Merle D'Aubigné
, and German theologian Franz Delitzsch
. Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998. 190: 312 |
Occupation | Charles Dickens | CD
, under the patronage of Baroness Burdett-Coutts
, opened Urania Cottage
, a home for fallen women. Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. HarperCollins, 1990. 535-6 |
politics | Hesba Stretton | This society later became the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
or NSPCC. The meeting of twenty people included Angela Burdett-Coutts
and the Earl of Shaftesbury
. HS
wrote the report for... |
Textual Production | Anna Mary Howitt | Two months later he reported it as attracting much favourable attention when hung at the Portland Gallery
, while AMH
's mother wrote that it was immediately sold, and brought in two commissions. Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952. 171 |
Textual Production | Florence Nightingale | FN
wrote a paper for the Chicago Exhibition; it was published the same year as Sick-Nursing and Health-Nursing in Angela Burdett-Coutts
's collection Woman's Mission. Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. University of Chicago Press, 1988. 189 Bishop, William John, and Sue Goldie. A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale. Dawsons for the International Council of Nurses, 1962. 25-6 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosa Nouchette Carey | In her introduction, Carey expresses her wish that her sketches of twelve noble and useful lives be read and studied by women of this generation, and go and do thou likewise be written upon some... |
Timeline
5 January 1907: Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts (who died...
Building item
5 January 1907
Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts
(who died of bronchitis on 30 December 1906) became the last person laid to rest at Westminster Abbey.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Texts
Nightingale, Florence. “Sick-Nursing and Health-Nursing”. Woman’s Mission, edited by Angela Burdett-Coutts, S. Low, Marston, 1893, pp. 184-05.