Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Richard Monckton Milnes
Standard Name: Milnes, Richard Monckton
Used Form: Richard Monckton Milnes,,, first Baron Houghton
Used Form: Lord Houghton
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Coventry Patmore | His father, Peter George Patmore
, was a writer and journalist. He edited The New Monthly Magazine from 1841 to 1853, and counted among his friends William Hazlitt
, Charles Lamb
, Richard Monckton Milnes |
Family and Intimate relationships | Thomas Hardy | A more lasting attraction was to Florence Henniker
(daughter of writer Richard Monckton Milnes
). She, however, was a married woman who had no thought of being unfaithful to her husband. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Nightingale | After a seven-year courtship, FN
received a proposal of marriage from poet and politician Richard Monckton Milnes
. Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996. 166: 270 Nightingale, Florence. Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale. Vicinus, Martha and Bea NergaardEditors , Harvard University Press, 1990. 40 Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice, 2002. xix, 43 |
Friends, Associates | Georgiana Chatterton | In Italy GC
met one of her closest friends, Helen Selina Blackwood
, Caroline Norton
's elder sister. Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878. 26 Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878. 37 |
Friends, Associates | Ouida | Aside from her mother, Ouida
kept mainly male company. Her circle included (in addition to her publishers William Harrison Ainsworth
and William Tinsley
) A. C. Swinburne
, Richard Monckton Milnes
(famed for his large... |
Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | Her friends and acquaintances included (besides Caroline Norton
, a particularly close friend) politicians Lord Lansdowne
and Lord Monteagle
; writers William Thackeray
, Charles Dickens
, Emily Eden
, Elliot Warburton
, Alfred Tennyson |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy
, where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron
(Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray
. At London parties... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | In 1854 she met Charles Kingsley
at a dinner given by Richard Monckton Milnes
. |
Friends, Associates | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | |
Friends, Associates | Algernon Charles Swinburne | In May 1861, he met Richard Monckton Milnes
, who introduced him to the works of the marquis de Sade
. Soon after this he met another important influence on his life, the explorer and... |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
entered the social scene of the capital with several connections already made. Her London friends included members of the Kingsley and Rossetti families, feminist reformer Frances Power Cobbe
, author John Ruskin
, Samuel Carter |
Friends, Associates | Anthony Trollope | Trollope was a friend of William Thackeray
, G. H. Lewes
, Richard Monckton Milnes
, George Eliot
, William Russell
, and John Everett Millais
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
's later social circle included many writers: Sydney, Lady Morgan
, who became a close friend and for whom GJ
acted as amanuensis; author Lady Llanover
; author and publisher Douglas Jerrold
; and... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | In 1838, HM
met the British diplomat David Urquhart
, who was known for his championship of Turkey against Russia. Although she recorded her dislike for his social egotism and misogynistic opinions, his hatred and... |
Timeline
April 1862
The Senate of the University of London voted against allowing women into their medical degree programme.