Richard Monckton Milnes

In Italy GC met one of her closest friends, Helen Selina Blackwood , Caroline Norton 's elder sister. Back in England, she met and liked Walter Savage Landor . She moved and entertained...

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...

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

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...

Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton , was quoted as calling Kittythe best novel I have ever read, and as demanding about the character Polly Cornford, Where on earth . . . did you...

With help from his friends Adelaide Procter and Richard Monckton Milnes , CP was taken on as a supernumerary assistant in the department of printed books at the British Museum .

Though MBE attended, together with a male friend, a meeting of the International Working Men's Association presided over by Karl Marx , she did so more as an observer than as a sympathiser. She felt...

The central concern of this society was educational and industrial reform; papers presented and discussed at the VDS meetings dealt not only with every aspect of women's work but also with sundry political, social and...

EG sent a copy to her friend Richard Monckton Milnes with thanks for his approval of the book. She wanted endorsement because she felt so anxious about her, and took so much over writing it...

Wordsworth observed of her poetry anthologies in general that they mixed the contemporary with the canonical: Spenser , Cowley . . . stand side by side with Monckton Milnes and Miss Barrett .

FN 's report is based on her testimony to the Royal Commission. Its chapters and appendices deal with military medical practices. They touch on a wide range of topics, including mortality rates, sanitation, military wives...

The Philobiblon Society published just under sixty pages of MH 's Mrs. Harcourt's Diary of the Court of George III as item six in volume 13 of Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, probably edited...

MH kept a diary during her time as a courtier during the reign of George III . Parts of it were published during the late-nineteenth century, but it seems the only parts deemed worthy of...