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Literary Setting | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Ishmael is set in Brittany and Paris, mainly between 1850 and 1867, during the reign of Louis Napoleon
. The title character is the son of a Breton aristocrat, despised by his father on... |
Literary Setting | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The volume revolves around the events in Italy surrounding Napoleon III
's betrayal, in the treaty of Villafranca in July 1859, of allies in the Italian nationalist cause against Austria, but earlier poems are also... |
Literary responses | Jessie White Mario | After the inaugural lecture, the New York Herald called her words very chaste and poetical and her enunciation clear and distinct. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 75 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Critics were divided about the success of the poem, as was perhaps to be expected given EBB
's passionate embrace of Italian nationalism and her criticism of British foreign policy. The Guardian called it an... |
Health | Harriet Hamilton King | She writes that her health suffered greatly from dwelling so intensely on such a painful topic; and I had the sensation strongly that I was being dragged down to the grave by Orsini
, to... |
Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | While they were in Paris their visitors included philosopher and politician Victor Cousin
, writers Alfred de Vigny
, Jules Barthélemy Saint Hilaire
, and Léon de Wailly
, Positivist philosopher Auguste Comte
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | To her many friends and visitors Lady Blessington soon added the exiled Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
, John Forster
, and in the early 1840s, Charles Dickens
. Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey. 340-1, 376, 419-0 |
Friends, Associates | Camilla Crosland | Her work for the annuals led to her connection with Lady Blessington
and her niece Marguerite Power
. Despite the disapproval of other friends she was a regular visitor to Blessington's home, Gore House... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ouida | Ouida
's father, Louis Ramé
—he was originally from France—had moved in the 1830s to Bury St Edmunds, where he taught French intermittently. He was rumoured, though without conclusive evidence, to have been a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Dixie | The widowed mother
of Lady Florence Douglas (later FD
) converted to Roman Catholicism
and fled to Paris (and to the protection of the French Emperor
) with her younger children, lest their guardians should... |
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