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Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Seacole | Mary Grant
married Edwin Horatio Seacole
(a godson of Lord Nelson
), who died in 1844. Uglow, Jennifer S., and Frances Hinton, editors. Continuum Dictionary of Women’s Biography. 2nd ed., Continuum, 1989. 490 Anionwu, Elizabeth. Mary Seacole, 1805-1881. May 2005, http://www.wolfson.tvu.ac.uk/maryseacole/pages/index.html. |
Family and Intimate relationships | May Edginton | Francis Baily
was a novelist and one-time editor of Royal Magazine. It was in the context of the magazine that they met, as ME
was one of its contributors. Baily was the author from... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Gatty | Margaret's father, the Rev. Alexander John Scott
, had been chaplain to Nelson
on the Victory. As well as a naval chaplain he was a passionate lover of books and music and, unofficially, a diplomat... |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | On their previous visit to Naples in 1785, the Knights had met Sir William Hamilton
, the British ambassador there, as well as the rulers, Ferdinand
and Maria Carolina
. On their return to Naples... |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | As her mother had wished, once back in England ECK
placed herself under the protection of powerful friends made abroad: Sir William Hamilton
(British Ambassador to the court of the Two Sicilies), his wife Emma, Lady Hamilton |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | The rumours continued to plague all those concerned after the Hamiltons and Nelson returned to England (by which time, in fact, Emma Hamilton
was pregnant by Nelson
). Knight, Ellis Cornelia. The Autobiography of Miss Knight. Editor Fulford, Roger, William Kimber & Co., 1960. 78 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Melesina Trench | Wherever she went on her first European trip she had access to exclusive circles of society. She met Nelson
and his mistress, Emma, Lady Hamilton
, the writer Antoine de Rivarol
, Napoleon's brother Lucien Bonaparte |
Material Conditions of Writing | Ellis Cornelia Knight | During ECK
's stay on the Foudroyant, Nelson
's flagship, in 1800, she began a sketchbook which contains thirty-seven watercolours. It is inscribed: This book was commenced at Palermo in Sicily, 1800. Finished at Windsor, 1806. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
names | Juliana Horatia Ewing |
|
Occupation | William Beckford | WB
entertained Nelson
and Sir William
and Lady Hamilton
in fantastic splendour at Fonthill. Clarke, Stephen. “Abbeys Real and Imagined: Northanger, Fonthill and Aspects of the Gothic Revival”. Persuasions, Vol. 20 , 1998, pp. 93-105. 102-3 |
Publishing | Anna Atkins | This makes a very different appearance from her former novels. Published by Routledge, Warne, and Routledge
in their series Routledge's Cheap Literature at eighteen pence, it sports a paper-on-board cover with an illustration of a... |
Publishing | Evelyn Sharp | ES
took up full-time the great profession of journalism in 1904, Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933. 93 |
Publishing | Elizabeth Bentley | EB
published at Norwich an ode on Nelson
's death at the battle of Trafalgar. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Residence | Ellis Cornelia Knight | They fled from Naples, capital of the kingdom of Naples and Sicily or the Two Sicilies, at about the same time as its king. The royal family (Ferdinand
and Maria Carolina
) escaped from... |
Textual Features | Hélène Barcynska | In their love lives each narrowly avoids disaster but only Vista is destined for happiness. Maggy takes as her model Emma Hamilton
, the poor girl who became Nelson
's mistress, and dreams of a... |
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