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Family and Intimate relationships | Elma Napier | The game in question occurred at Wilson's home in September 1890. The Prince of Wales
had been in attendance, and was called to testify against EN
's father. The guilty verdict is often attributed to... |
Reception | Florence Nightingale | 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. Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice. xxiii Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Norton | For epigraph she chose a quotation from her friend Sidney Herbert
, calling for better communication between different social ranks. Employing Spenser
ian stanzas (CN
listed The Faerie Queene among her favourite poems), the... |
Birth | Carola Oman | CO
was born in Oxford, the middle child in a family of three, during a visit to Oxford by the Prince of Wales
. Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton. 51 |
Textual Production | Carola Oman | She sent her first sonnets to magazines under the name of C. Oman, and the rejection slips came in addressed to her father. There was not much Women's Lib. in my early days. Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton. 89 |
Textual Production | Emma Robinson | ER
turned from prose to poetry to issue, again as the author of Whitefriars, an Epithalamium in honour of the marriage of their Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Princess of Wales. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Occupation | Mary Seacole | 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. Andrews, William L., and Mary Seacole. “Introduction”. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, Oxford University Press, p. xxvii - xxxiv. xxxiii Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | ES
had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened... |
Leisure and Society | Flora Annie Steel | On the visit of the Prince of Wales
to India (which began in November 1875), FAS
(who was blonde, pink-cheeked, and still extremely youthful in appearance) was a great hit with the prince because of... |
Literary Setting | Flora Annie Steel | 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... |
Reception | Agnes Strickland | 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. Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus. 266 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | VT
's mother, Alice Frederica (Edmonstone) Keppel
, was born in 1869 to Mary Elizabeth (Parsons)
and William Edmonstone
at Duntreath Castle near Loch Lomond, Scotland. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo. 15-17 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Later in life especially, Trefusis liked to whisper to friends that she was really the daughter of Edward VII
, whom she and her sister called Grandpapa and Kingy Gateau as children. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo. 15, 62 |
Travel | Violet Trefusis | After the Berlitz School
, Violet was given a trip to Spain for her fifteenth birthday. Then, following the King
's death on 6 May 1910, Mrs Keppel announced that the family would travel to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Mrs Keppel was a wealthy woman, both as Edward VII
's former mistress and because by 1918 her own speculations yielded more than £20,000 a year. This gave her an advantage in her goal of... |
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