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Charles George Gordon
Standard Name: Gordon, Charles George
Used Form: General Gordon
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Mary Anne Barker | MAB
became a friend to the young Rider Haggard
, and worked to promote his early writing. She mentions with respect many of the distinguished military and civil servants of the Crown whom she got... |
| Textual Features | Flora Shaw | FS
's sympathetic portrayal of Zebehr Pasha contradicted previous accounts of him as a ruthless leader and slave-trader. In fact he had been recommended by General Gordon
in 1884 to be his successor in the... |
| Textual Features | Olivia Manning | Mehemet Emin Pasha (1840-92), whom OM
apparently found more interesting and sympathetic than Stanley, was German by birth and a physician by training. He was struck off the register in Germany, and set out for... |
| Textual Production | Annie Besant | AB
issued through the Freethought Publishing Company
a pamphlet entitled Gordon
Judged out of His Own Mouth. |
| Textual Production | Gillian Slovo | GS
published her historical novel about the doomed expedition to rescue General Gordon
from Khartoum: An Honourable Man. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
| Textual Production | Catherine Marsh | Her biographies devoted to a single individual were all short sketches written soon after the subject's death, all recognizing and celebrating Christian faith and virtues. They included Brief Memories of Hugh McCalmont, first Earl Cairns |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | The book's narrator, a middle-aged bachelor, claims that he cannot get on without a name. qtd. in 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, 1990. |
Timeline
26 January 1885: Mahdist nationalists captured Khartoum after...
National or international item
26 January 1885
Mahdist nationalists captured Khartoum after a siege of 317 days and killed the celebrated, eccentric and popular General Gordon
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Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 731-2
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
333
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Charles George Gordon
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