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Charles George Gordon
Standard Name: Gordon, Charles George
Used Form: General Gordon
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 Production | Annie Besant | AB
issued through the Freethought Publishing Company
a pamphlet entitled Gordon
Judged out of His Own Mouth. |
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. 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. |
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 | 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 |
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 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. |
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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