Benjamin Disraeli

The book, according to BB 's preface, focused on the expectations and attitudes of six families, three in the North and three in the South. It has an epigraph from Benjamin Disraeli 's Sybil...

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...

In London in 1824 she had a socially unsuccessful meeting with Wordsworth , who was by now a thorough reactionary in politics. He went to some pains to snub her; she refused to notice this...

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...

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...

His friends included Benjamin Disraeli , Charles Dickens , John Forster , and Thomas Babington Macaulay . Later in life he conducted a long, mentoring friendship by letter with Mary Elizabeth Braddon . He also...

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

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 ,...

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 .

It opens with a Notice attacking her critics, the same gang of male and female Infamies employed before by the great Literary Bombastes. The heroine is a woman who rashly married and is now...