Benjamin Disraeli

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Standard Name: Disraeli, Benjamin

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Characters Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton
It opens with a Notice attacking her critics, the same gang of male and female Infamies employed before by the great Literary Bombastes.
Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. Very Successful!. Whitaker, 1856, 3 vols.
preface
The heroine is a woman who rashly married and is now...
Cultural formation L. E. L.
There are indications, however, that a rather suspect class standing contributed along with somewhat bohemian behaviour to the difficulty she had about weathering scandal. Benjamin Disraeli famously and snobbishly wrote of a party at the
Cultural formation Gladys Henrietta Schütze
Her family were British members of prosperous, successful Jewry. In 1884 D'Israeli had only been dead four years and tolerance was very much the order of the day. So that anti-semitism was at a very...
Education Stella Gibbons
SG learned to read fairly late, but then read voraciously. The glowing Eastern landscapes and brilliant figures
qtd. in
Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury, 1998.
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of Disraeli 's Alroy and Thomas Moore 's Lalla Rookh made a particular impression. She also developed...
Education Isabella Banks
Her education was supplemented both by a good home library and by her parents' wide cultural circle. She led a lively social life in Manchester, attending Anti-Corn Law League bazaars, and soirées at the Manchester Athenæum
Education Agatha Christie
By the time Agatha was born, Clara Miller believed that girls ought not to learn to read before the age of eight. Defiantly, Agatha taught herself to read at five. She eagerly devoured Lewis Carroll
Family and Intimate relationships Agatha Christie
Max Mallowan worked for Leonard and Katharine Woolley on their archaeological dig in Ur. He and AC met when she returned to Ur for a second visit in February 1930. They spent a good deal...
Family and Intimate relationships May Edginton
Francis Baily was a novelist and one-time editor of Royal Magazine. It was in the context of the magazine that they met, as ME was one of its contributors. Baily was the author from...
Family and Intimate relationships Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington
Blessington's past made her notorious, as did her continuing association with Count D'Orsay . Her biographer J. Fitzgerald Molloy claims there was no foundation to the rumours that the two were lovers; editor Ernest J. Lovell
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Ottoline Morrell
After the widowed Mrs Bentinck's stepson Arthur became the sixth Duke of Portland, Prime Minister Disraeli , whose career had been greatly assisted by the Bentincks, prevailed upon Queen Victoria to create her Baroness Bolsover...
Family and Intimate relationships Naomi Jacob
NJ 's father, Samuel Jacob , had started life in Germany, the country to which his father had fled as a boy from Poland, after his parents were killed in pogroms. Longer ago...
Fictionalization Lady Caroline Lamb
The other great love of her life, her husband, was equally productive for fictionalized versions of her character and doings. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography cites among novels dealing with her marriage Thomas Lister
Fictionalization Charlotte Guest
Lady CG 's friend Benjamin Disraeli portrayed her in her unmarried youth in Sybil, 1845, as Lady Joan Fitz Warene, who is not quite beautiful but intellectually brilliant.
Obey, Erica. The Wunderkammer of Lady Charlotte Guest. Lehigh University Press, 2007.
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Her fame for later generations...
Fictionalization Caroline Norton
CN was depicted as Berengaria Montford by Disraeli in Endymion (written in the 1830s but unpublished until 1880). George Meredith said he based the heroine of Diana of the Crossways, 1885, partly on her...
Fictionalization Augusta Ada Byron
AAB has appeared as a central character in numerous literary works ranging from Disraeli 's novel Venetia, 1837, to Arthur C. Clarke 's The Ghost from the Grand Banks, 1990. In the world...

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1820: Benjamin Disraeli's first publication, A...

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1820

Benjamin Disraeli 's first publication, A True Story, appeared in The Indicator.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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April 1826: Benjamin Disraeli anonymously published his...

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April 1826

Benjamin Disraeli anonymously published his novel Vivian Grey; a continuation appeared in 1827.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

12 July 1839: Thomas Attwood and John Fielden proposed...

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12 July 1839

Thomas Attwood and John Fielden proposed consideration by the House of Commons of a petition for universal manhood suffrage bearing a million signatures.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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December 1839: Thomas Carlyle published his essay Chartism,...

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December 1839

Thomas Carlyle published his essay Chartism, bearing the date of 1840.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

By 18 May 1844: Benjamin Disraeli published Coningsby, the...

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By 18 May 1844

Benjamin Disraeli published Coningsby, the first book of the Young England trilogy for which he is best known, and an example of the social problem novel.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
864 (1844): 446
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

By 12 May 1845: Benjamin Disraeli published his condition-of-England...

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By 12 May 1845

Benjamin Disraeli published his condition-of-England novel Sybil, or The Two Nations.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Braun, Thom. Disraeli the Novelist. George Allen and Unwin, 1981.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
916 (1845): 477

By 12 May 1845: Benjamin Disraeli published his condition-of-England...

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By 12 May 1845

Benjamin Disraeli published his condition-of-England novel Sybil, or The Two Nations.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Braun, Thom. Disraeli the Novelist. George Allen and Unwin, 1981.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
916 (1845): 477

March 1847: Benjamin Disraeli published his novel Ta...

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March 1847

Benjamin Disraeli published his novel Tancred.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

March 1847: Benjamin Disraeli published his novel Ta...

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March 1847

Benjamin Disraeli published his novel Tancred.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

2 August 1858: Government and military control of India...

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2 August 1858

Government and military control of India was transferred by the Government of India Act from the East India Company to the British Crown after the successful suppression of the Indian Mutiny by the British army...

27 April 1866: Benjamin Disraeli, leader of the opposition...

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27 April 1866

Benjamin Disraeli , leader of the opposition to the Liberal government, argued that if there is to be universal suffrage, women have as much right to vote as men.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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27 February 1868: Benjamin Disraeli, a Conservative, became...

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27 February 1868

Benjamin Disraeli , a Conservative , became Prime Minister following the resignation of the Earl of Derby .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491

3 December 1868: Following the first general election after...

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3 December 1868

Following the first general election after the Second Reform Act of the previous year, William Gladstone , a Liberal , formed the government in succession to ConservativeBenjamin Disraeli .
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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20 February 1874: Conservative leader Benjamin Disraeli formed...

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20 February 1874

Conservative leader Benjamin Disraeli formed the government for a second time, in succession to Gladstone 's Liberal government.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491

24 April 1877: Russia declared war on Turkey, initiating...

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24 April 1877

Russia declared war on Turkey, initiating the last Russo-Turkish war.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
330, 345
Levey, Judith S., and Agnes Greenhall, editors. The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia. Columbia University Press, 1983.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
Clerke, Ellen Mary. The Flying Dutchman, and Other Poems. W. Satchell, 1881.
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Texts

Disraeli, Benjamin, and Sarah Disraeli. A Year at Hartlebury. Saunders and Otley, 1834, 2 vols.
Disraeli, Benjamin. Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1815-1834. Editors Gunn, John Alexander Wilson et al., University of Toronto Press, 1982.
Disraeli, Benjamin. Coningsby. H. Colburn, 1844, 3 vols.
Disraeli, Benjamin. Lord Beaconsfield’s Correspondence With His Sister 1832-1852. John Murray, 1886.
Disraeli, Benjamin. Sybil. H. Colburn, 1845, 3 vols.
Disraeli, Benjamin. Tancred. H. Colburn, 1847, 3 vols.
Disraeli, Benjamin. Vivian Grey. H. Colburn, 1827, 5 vols.