Catherine Gladstone

Her newly-made friends from 1887-9 included the writer Israel Zangwill in London, Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone and his wife in Florence. Back in the USA she made another friend-as-collaborator, the dramatic-rights agent Elisabeth Marbury

AS 's circle of friends (very largely brought her by her translations) included Henry Crabb Robinson , Tennyson , Robert Browning (who told her he wished she had known his wife), James Martineau (brother of...

Shortly after moving to Shankill, KT met Lord Aberdeen at a party at Dublin Castle; she maintained a long correspondence with him and his wife, Lady Aberdeen . Lord Aberdeen was a Liberal politician...

CM 's sister Matilda and her husband Frederick Chalmers turned their house at Beckenham into an orphanage, giving their charges a good home and good educations at the church schools. The children were also taught...

Lady Shaftesbury served as first president. The association's subscribers included the Duchess of Argyll , Florence Nightingale , and Mrs Gladstone . JWM was living in Italy at the time of the founding.

Jointly with biographer and writer Georgina Battiscombe , ML edited and contributed to a volume of essays for the Charlotte M. Yonge Society : A Chaplet for Charlotte Yonge.