Plumptre, Edward Hayes, and Sarah Williams. “Memoir”. Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse, Strahan, 1868, p. vii - xxxiii.
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Characters | Sarah Williams | This volume combines prose stories for children with a few poems suitable for adult readers. Plumptre, Edward Hayes, and Sarah Williams. “Memoir”. Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse, Strahan, 1868, p. vii - xxxiii. vii-viii |
Cultural formation | Mary Robinson | Her early (though not quite so early as was thought before Alix Nathan
's research) and notorious love-affairs made her sexuality, luridly represented, an important element in her public persona. Many cartoons circulated which represented... |
Education | Mary McCarthy | Her time at at St Stephens and later at |
Family and Intimate relationships | Honoré de Balzac | For many years HB
was romantically linked to Madame de Berny
, a god-daughter of Louis XVI
and Marie-Antionette
. He was devastated by her death in 1836. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Chatterton | GC
was born at the home of a maternal aunt, Margaret Pitt
, wife of William Morton Pitt. A beautiful woman, Georgiana's aunt moved among the leading figures of her day. She spent time at... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grace Elliott | Apart from the prince (who was named in registering the birth and alluded to in the little girl's baptismal names, Georgina Augusta Frederica), possible fathers included Charles Wyndham
(son of Lord Egremont), and Lord Cholmondeley |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grace Elliott | GE
's relationship with the duc d'Orléans
is known to her readers only from her account of him in the days when he had moved on to other women and was increasingly showing a sympathy... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Mew | CM
was very close to her younger sister Anne
, her only living sibling not confined to an institution. Anne, who bore a striking resemblance to Marie Antoinette
, Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, 1953, p. vii - xx. ix |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emmuska Baroness Orczy | In June 1918 EBO
's mother, who had been staying with her in England, began to be worn down by her status as enemy alien, and travelled back to Hungary. She was staying with a... |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | Wherever they went the Knights always met, and always admired, members of the relevant royal family. On a visit to the Palace of Versailles during their time in Paris, they were able to see Louis XVI |
Friends, Associates | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana did not restrict herself to this circle. She made some eminent older friends in the world of literature and culture, like Mary Delany
, Elizabeth Montagu
, and Samuel Johnson
. From 1777 she... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Wollstonecraft | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | The pamphlet takes the form of a letter to an unnamed man. Along with the particular example of her husband, it attacks the government of England: but how could this country be anything but the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jean Plaidy | The title of this last book, adapting from the drinking song about girls sung by Charles Surface in Richard Brinsley Sheridan
's The School for Scandal, suggests the attitude taken to the high-living behaviour... |
Leisure and Society | Sarah Scott | Sarah belonged to a number of libraries, both the circulating and the subscription variety. She seldom missed a new publication either in English or French. She was more critical of what she read than was... |
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