King Edward VII

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

Major holdings of VT 's papers are at the Beinecke Library at Yale University . This collection includes letters between her and Vita Sackville-West from 1940 onwards, and from Edward VII to Alice Keppel ...

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.

The next year this series, Love and Inheritance, expanded to include two more titles: Long Live the King (published in April 2013) and The New Countess (published in November 2013). The first of these...

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.

The New Yorker in the event paid $410, of which an agent claimed ten percent and Crichton claimed a third. Brett did make another thirty-five dollars when the piece was reprinted in a volume. Her...

JOH 's non-fiction included travel essays in epistolary form written while in Delhi for the durbar for Edward VII in early 1903. These were originally published in England in the Daily Graphic and in the...

Thirty-six years after this publication, MBL wrote of the way [m]uch is left out that should have been put into official biographies, because of the writer's need to keep a nervous eye cocked on certain...

A few months after publishing The Prince and the Prayer (an account of the Prince of Wales 's divinely-ordered escape from typhoid), CM followed it with The Prince and the Praise, through the same...