Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under Henry Fawcett
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Characters | Augusta Gregory | In the pamphlet Gladstone
's phantom returns from the dead to witness the ruinous consequences of Home Rule, for which he had fought. AG
later moved toward an acceptance of Home Rule, but at this... |
Cultural formation | Edith Lyttelton | Little is known about EL
's life before she met her famous husband. An unpublished memoir held by the Churchill Archives Centre
at Churchill College
, Cambridge, may provide more information. |
Education | Harriet Hamilton King | From an early age, she demonstrated an eagerness to learn and to read. When she was eleven years old, Harriet read Italy, A Poem by Samuel Rogers
. Between the ages fourteen and seventeen, she... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | When they met in May 1865, she was almost eighteen and he thirty-two. He served as Postmaster-General in Gladstone
's government of 1880. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. under Henry Fawcett |
Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Fullerton | Of GF
's three brothers,:Granville George
, who inherited the title, was a politician who became Gladstone's
Foreign Secretary; William
died young following an accident; and Freddy
, who also became a politician, edited... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
's father was the sixth William Rathbone
in a Lancashire family which was Quaker
, Unitarian
, Liberal
and philanthropic. For six generations this family had been the epitome of fair trading, plain speaking... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Lyttelton | The mother of Alfred Lyttelton (youngest of twelve children of the fourth Baron Lyttelton) had died six months after he was born. He was a successful lawyer and became a top athlete in English sport... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Lyttelton | Alfred Lyttelton
delayed entering politics until his uncle the Prime Minister William Gladstone
resigned, because he could not agree with him on the subject of Irish Home Rule. Before the general election of 25 June... |
Friends, Associates | Emily Lawless | |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Among her nineteenth-century visitors were Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(brought by Joseph Cottle
the Bristol bookseller), Cottle, Joseph. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. 2nd ed., Houlston and Stoneman, 1847. 54 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Linskill | On this same holiday, passing through London, ML
was invited to dinner by Gladstone
, who was an admirer of her work. Quinlan, David, and Arthur Frederick Humble. Mary Linskill: The Whitby Novelist. Horne and Son, 1969. 40 |
Friends, Associates | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Her newly-made friends from 1887-9 included the writer Israel Zangwill
in London, Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone
and his wife
in Florence. Back in the USA she made another friend-as-collaborator, the dramatic-rights agent Elisabeth Marbury |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
and her husband, Sir Charles Eastlake
, attended Gladstone
's party for the Italian patriot Garibaldi
, who was visiting England. Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols. 2: 181 Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961. 111 |
Friends, Associates | Queen Victoria | After Benjamin Disraeli
first became Prime Minister, somewhat briefly, on 27 April 1866, Victoria encountered a type of politician which was new to her. Prince Albert had distrusted Disraeli and favoured Gladstone
; Victoria found... |
Friends, Associates | Sara Coleridge | Among women writers, in addition to Dorothy Wordsworth
, Joanna Baillie
, and Maria Jane Jewsbury
, SC
also knew Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Anna Jameson
, Elizabeth Rigby
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and Harriet Martineau |