Charles George Gordon

The book's narrator, a middle-aged bachelor, claims that he cannot get on without a name. A boy and girl bond during a brief encounter marked by grief over the death of General Gordon . (...

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

GS published her historical novel about the doomed expedition to rescue General Gordon from Khartoum: An Honourable Man.

AB issued through the Freethought Publishing Company a pamphlet entitled Gordon Judged out of His Own Mouth.

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...

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...

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...