Horatio Nelson

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...

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...

WB entertained Nelson and Sir William and Lady Hamilton in fantastic splendour at Fonthill.

EB published at Norwich an ode on Nelson 's death at the battle of Trafalgar.

HC sometimes wrote occasional poems in her retirement. After the death of Nelson on 21 October 1805 she wrote, not an elegy but a sardonic comment in verse on somebody else's elegy. She wrote a...

In the first winter of her widowhood AD went abroad to study art. Later she escaped newspaper harrassment by travelling to Italy: Rome and Florence (where she met Walpole's friend Horace Mann ). This voyage...

AD 's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they...

CD edited and published The Nelson Touch, a selection of letters from a national hero; she noted parallels between the military state of Britain confronting Napoleon and confronting Hitler .

CD published a novel entitled He Brings Great News, inspired by her recent editing of Nelson , which treats the battle of Trafalgar.

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...

Lady Hamilton is, in these introductory pages, the notorious adventuress, sometime Emy Lyon, but ultimately the wife of Sir William Hamilton , who was guilty of many lapses from virtue both before and after her...

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...

The play takes as its subject Admiral Horatio Nelson , who is the victim of a murderous attack in the port of Dover by a Royal Navy captain (who has been suborned into the employ...

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...

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...