Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Ottoline Morrell | After the widowed Mrs Bentinck's stepson |
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 |
Textual Production | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | This work involved her in finding—and engaging in voluminous correspondence with—contributors (who often were or became her personal friends), such as Anna Maria Hall
, Felicia Hemans
, Amelia Opie
, Mary Russell Mitford
,... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | This book had a star-studded cast: sundry fashionable ladies, and notables like Byron
, Shelley
, Landor
, Disraeli
, the Duke of Wellington
, Lord John Russell
, Palmerston
, and Sir Robert Peel
. |
Leisure and Society | Eliza Lynn Linton | In London, Eliza Lynn drank in artistic life. She championed the singing of Jenny Lind
against those who preferred Alboni or Malibran. She performed for Samuel Laurence
the role of uninformed art critic or foolometer... |
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 |
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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Here she relates significant moments in her life to what she was reading at the time. She says that her reading, directed at first by chance and the choices of others, later moved towards what... |
Reception | Ellen Johnston | EJ
wrote a petition to Prime Minister Disraeli
that resulted in a grant of £50 from the Royal Bounty. Klaus, H. Gustav. Factory Girl: Ellen Johnston and Working-Class Poetry in Victorian Scotland. Peter Lang. 91 |
Publishing | Ellen Johnston | The forty-eight patrons and subscribers thanked in the second edition included Queen Victoria
, Benjamin Disraeli
, Robert Napier
, and Lord Raglan
, as well as other members of the nobility and the army... |
Publishing | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | In great need of money, Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
, began contributing to the Burlington Magazine; her first article blasted critics of Disraeli
's novel Endymion. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 171 |
Reception | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Following the death of her husband
, JFLW
wrote to Sir Thomas Larcom
, hoping he could help secure her a government pension. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 143 |
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... |
Occupation | Richard Hengist Horne | Reports such as Horne's also provided writers of protest literature such as Benjamin Disraeli
, Charles Dickens
, and Elizabeth Gaskell
with material which they incorporated into their fiction. Elizabeth Barrett
's The Cry of... |
Literary Setting | John Oliver Hobbes | The protagonist of the novel, which is set primarily in the 1860s, is Robert de Hausée Orange, an idealistic orphan whose various adventures lead him through from Normandy in France to England, English politics, and... |
Timeline
1880: Benjamin Disraeli's last completed novel,...
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1880
Benjamin Disraeli
's last completed novel, Endymion, was published.
23 April 1880: Liberal William Gladstone formed the UK's...
National or international item
23 April 1880
LiberalWilliam Gladstone
formed the UK's government for the second time, following a Conservative
disaster in the general election.
1905: The Times posthumously printed Benjamin Disraeli's...
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1905
The Times posthumously printed Benjamin Disraeli
's last novel, which is now known as Falconet.
5 January 1907: Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts (who died...
Building item
5 January 1907
Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts
(who died of bronchitis on 30 December 1906) became the last person laid to rest at Westminster Abbey.
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