King Edward VII

HC plays up the Victorian obsession with dirt regularly, often noting that she prepared meals in [her] dirt or that she went to bed too exhausted to clean up. She represents herself as...

The book was inspired by the typhoid fever which Albert Edward, Prince of Wales , suffered in December 1871. A service was held for him on the 14th, the anniversary of the death of his...

The introduction to Miscellanies volume 15 refers to the interest of the then Prince of Wales in the portion we were allowed to print of the amusing diary of Lady Harcourt, which we should have...

It was less well reviewed than their previous books. The Spectator implied, rather than saying outright, that it was a mere aggregation of feeble platitudes. When the book reached the Prince of Wales in...

FN became the first woman to receive the Order of Merit, from King Edward VII ; Queen Victoria had already awarded her the Royal Red Cross.

DB 's article The King is Crowned, solicited by the New Yorker's Kyle Crichton , reached print in time for Queen Elizabeth II 's coronation.

After coming into her inheritance, MG put a great deal of effort into campaigning in England and beyond for the cause of Irish Home Rule. She invested great energy in political activism throughout her life...

Her stage version of Little Lord Fauntleroy opened in London on 14 May 1888 to a barrage of publicity. The Dawn of a Tomorrow (a New Thought play) also opened in London in spring 1910...

Peter's Mother was first adapted for the stage, as a three-act comedy which reached print in 1910 and which meanwhile, in 1906, had a royal command performance at the royal estate of Sandringham in Norfolk...

In the 1870s MS developed a friendship with Alexandra (wife of Edward Prince of Wales ), to whom she acted as unofficial masseuse though she was by this time in her late sixties.

GM received several honours for his literary achievements, including the Order of Merit from Edward VII and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature . In 1892 he succeeded Tennyson as president of...

This novel features the usual complex plot of personal relations among people of different racial backgrounds. It evokes a past when both the religious and the racial mix in India was very different, in comparing...

It achieved international recognition and became a favourite of Queen Victoria , King Edward VII , and United States president William McKinley . Along with Cardinal John Henry Newman 's Lead Kindly Light, it...

MB 's mother was also a keen theatre-goer whenever she could afford it, so Muriel queued for seats in the pit or gallery and saw the heart-throbs of the day perform. The children were...

On her father's return to Dublin, MG made her début in society on 9 April 1885 at Dublin Castle (the Irish centre of British high society as well as British power). This purely social occasion...