Horatio Nelson

An album centred on Nelson, the Hamiltons, and the Knights, containing several poems by ECK in both print and manuscript, was sold at auction in the early 1990s and broken up. Other poems severed from...

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.

ECK relates her experiences at the English and at various European courts, and includes sketches and anecdotes of famous people she knew, including those of an earlier generation like Samuel Johnson and Frances Reynolds ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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...