Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. Very Successful!. Whitaker, 1856, 3 vols.
preface
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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 |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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. 20 |
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 |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Agatha Christie | |
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 |
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... |
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. 28 |
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... |