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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 An unpublished memoir held by the Churchill Archives Centre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. |
Cultural formation | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Beauman, who uses the title Lovers for one of the chapters in her biography of LCA
, also believes that her subject's sexual development was shadowed by her mother's relationships with Arthur Balfour
(which puzzled... |
Education | Lady Cynthia Asquith | When she was fourteen, so that she could experience the atmosphere of a girls' school, Cynthia Charteris was sent once a week, on the advice of Arthur Balfour
, to Cheltenham Ladies' College
. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 51 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Sidgwick | Henry's wife, Eleanor Sidgwick
(known in the family as Nora), was therefore her aunt by marriage. Née Balfour, Eleanor was sister to Arthur J. Balfour
, who became Prime Minister. She married Henry Sidgwick in... |
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 | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Her husband took great interest in other women and was frequently unfaithful. Having married him somewhat reluctantly, she, too, conducted an emotional life elsewhere: Beauman writes that she became pregnant by the writer Wilfrid Blunt |
Friends, Associates | Amabel Williams-Ellis | During Amabel's childhood, visitors to the St Loe Strachey household included the powerful and famous, mostly diplomats, millionaires, politicians. Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983. 6 |
Friends, Associates | Edith Lyttelton | EL
and her husband were friendly with several prominent politicians, including Herbert Asquith
and Arthur Balfour
. Lyttelton, Edith. Alfred Lyttelton: An Account of His Life. Longmans, Green, 1917. 220 |
Friends, Associates | Lady Cynthia Asquith | LCA
's mother invited to Stanway a wide variety of guests: Arthur Balfour
, Walter Raleigh
, George Wyndham
, Harry Cust
, Charles Whibley
, H. G. Wells
, Evan Charteris
, Hugh Cecil |
Literary responses | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Robin Hone
, reviewing, found a genial mist of restrained and charitable recollection, which ignored such jarring contrasts as that between this time and the First World War which was to follow, or between D. H. Lawrence |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
sat on the Balfour
committee on trade and industry (whose minority report she signed) before she redeemed her former election defeats with success at Blackburn in 1929. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Beatrice Webb | BW
was appointed (in one of the last acts of Arthur Balfour
's Conservative
government) to a Royal Commission on the Poor Law. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Dora Sigerson | The Club grew out of the Writers' Club
, an organization for women writers in London. It was the brainchild of Constance Smedley
, and Writers' Club members who were founding members of the Lyceum... |
Textual Production | Constance Lytton | CL
's letters and papers are mostly at institutions in London. Her manuscript account of her prison experiences, with other papers, is in the Museum of London
. Her letters to Arthur James Balfour |
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