Benjamin Disraeli

More recently, Margaret Maison characterised The School For Saints as a strange mixture of Disraeli , Hardy , Ouida , and Meredith . . . and there are even echoes of the old bigamy novels...

Despite intense controversy over its details, the work as a whole was a great popular success. It brought AS fame; it provided a quarry of subject-matter for historical painters; it brought begging letters (presumably written...

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...

The preface notes that the work was ready for publication in the Spring, but delayed by the publisher 's wish, on account of the agitated state of the political atmosphere.

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...

Bulwer served as an independent radical Member of Parliament, who in 1832 reformed himself out of a seat. Following this (the First Reform Bill) he was immediately re-elected, and served until 1841. His initiatives during...

He was caricatured in works by Benjamin Disraeli ,Thomas Love Peacock , Sydney Morgan herself, and her sister Olivia Clarke . While the story that he caused the death of Keats is long since...

His first task was to organize the celebrations on New Year's Day 1877 for Queen Victoria 's proclamation as Empress of India. The rest of his time as Viceroy was quite controversial. His policy towards...

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...

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.

Following the death of her husband , JFLW wrote to Sir Thomas Larcom , hoping he could help secure her a government pension. In his reply, Larcom explained that only the Prime Minister could...

The New York Times reported in 1902 that on the strength of The School For Saints, JOH had been asked to write a biography of Benjamin Disraeli . If she began this project, she...

The second of four early dramatic adaptations of Aurora Floyd, this one by Benjamin Webster , opened. Weak copyright law meant MEB received nothing for the many pirated versions of her books that were...