Benjamin Disraeli

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Standard Name: Disraeli, Benjamin

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Literary responses John Oliver Hobbes
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...
Literary responses Agnes Strickland
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...
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Elizabeth Rigby
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.
Rigby, Elizabeth. Mrs. Grote. John Murray.
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This presumably refers to...
Occupation Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton
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...
Occupation Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Bulwer served as an independent radical Member of Parliament, who in 1832 reformed himself out of a seat.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Following this (the First Reform Bill) he was immediately re-elected, and served until 1841. His initiatives during...
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...
Occupation John Wilson Croker
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...
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.
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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...
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.
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In his reply, Larcom explained that only the Prime Minister could...
Reception Janet Hamilton
In 1868 a petition to Benjamin Disraeli on behalf of JH resulted in an award of £50 from the Royal Bounty Fund. She also received a visit from a son—or possibly a general—of Italian unification...
Reception Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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...
Reception John Oliver Hobbes
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...
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.
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