Knight, Ellis Cornelia. The Autobiography of Miss Knight. Editor Fulford, Roger, William Kimber & Co., 1960.
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Friends, Associates | Melesina Trench | Wherever she went on her first European trip she had access to exclusive circles of society. She met Nelson
and his mistress, Emma, Lady Hamilton
, the writer Antoine de Rivarol
, Napoleon's brother Lucien Bonaparte |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | On their previous visit to Naples in 1785, the Knights had met Sir William Hamilton
, the British ambassador there, as well as the rulers, Ferdinand
and Maria Carolina
. On their return to Naples... |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | As her mother had wished, once back in England ECK
placed herself under the protection of powerful friends made abroad: Sir William Hamilton
(British Ambassador to the court of the Two Sicilies), his wife Emma, Lady Hamilton |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | The rumours continued to plague all those concerned after the Hamiltons and Nelson returned to England (by which time, in fact, Emma Hamilton
was pregnant by Nelson
). Knight, Ellis Cornelia. The Autobiography of Miss Knight. Editor Fulford, Roger, William Kimber & Co., 1960. 78 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | William Beckford | WB
entertained Nelson
and Sir William
and Lady Hamilton
in fantastic splendour at Fonthill. Clarke, Stephen. “Abbeys Real and Imagined: Northanger, Fonthill and Aspects of the Gothic Revival”. Persuasions, Vol. 20 , 1998, pp. 93-105. 102-3 |
Publishing | Julia Frankau | The last of JF
's art books was The Story of Emma, Lady Hamilton, in two huge folio volumes in white vellum covers patterned with gilt art-nouveau-style decoration. Dated from the acquisition stamp in... |
Residence | Julia Frankau | After her marriage JF
lived in Weymouth Street, Marylebone, until she and her husband moved back to her former district of Mayfair. Living at 11 Clarges Street was said in the family to have... |
Residence | Ellis Cornelia Knight | For a while she lived with Sir William
and Lady Hamilton
after they rented a house in Grosvenor Square, London, from a friend. Knight, Ellis Cornelia. The Autobiography of Miss Knight. Editor Fulford, Roger, William Kimber & Co., 1960. 66, 78 |
Textual Features | Hélène Barcynska | In their love lives each narrowly avoids disaster but only Vista is destined for happiness. Maggy takes as her model Emma Hamilton
, the poor girl who became Nelson
's mistress, and dreams of a... |
Textual Production | Norah Lofts | She followed this with further historical studies. After observing everyday conditions in Domestic Life in England, 1976, she turned to the highest level of society in Queens of Britain, 1977. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 80 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Julia Frankau | She followed this with three more art-historical works in biographical form: The Life of John Raphael Smith, 1902, The Lives of James
and William Ward, 1904, and a novel or fictional biography on... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Melesina Trench | Her travel journal (and the excerpt given in The Times) records trenchant criticisms of Horatio Nelson
and particularly of his mistress, Emma, Lady Hamilton
, who failed in several respects to live up to... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ellis Cornelia Knight | ECK
relates her experiences at the English and at various European courts, and includes sketches and anecdotes of famous people she knew, including those of an earlier generation like Samuel Johnson
and Frances Reynolds
... |
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