King Edward VII

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.

She alludes to the flattering welcome her previous collection had received. A good portion of her preface is taken up with responding to gendered criticism of her work: I have been told that I...

The ODNB notes that the early stories in particular are sharply critical of official incompetence and aristocratic privilege.A Scandal in Bohemia hints at the well-concealed love-life of the Prince of Wales . Characters of...

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...

JOH travelled extensively, often in her role as a now-famous author. She had first revisited the United States, after leaving it as a baby, in May 1886. She saw much of England and...

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...

Following her husband's retirement, MEB and her family spent significant time abroad, moving in high society in Paris, Lyons, Marseilles, and Cannes, where they mixed with aristocrats including the Prince of Wales