As the love cooled between VSW
's parents, her mother began a series of probably platonic relationships with older, wealthy men. Her long-time companion Sir John Murray Scott
(known to her and Vita as Seery...
Timeline
May 1893: The Pall Mall Magazine began monthly publication;...
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May 1893
The Pall Mall Magazine began monthly publication; it ran until September 1914.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
1911: William Waldorf Astor bought the Observer...
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1911
William Waldorf Astor
bought the Observer newspaper (founded in 1791) from Lord Northcliffe
for £5,000.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Waldorf Astor
1 December 1919: Nancy, Lady Astor (Conservative and Unionist...