Horatio Nelson

Standard Name: Nelson, Horatio

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Textual Production Ellis Cornelia Knight
While in Naples in 1798, ECK composed The Battle of the Nile: a Pindarick Ode to celebrate a famous victory of Nelson 's. This she published in Vienna in the year 1800.
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Luttrell, Barbara. The Prim Romantic. Chatto and Windus.
103
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Textual Production Ellis Cornelia Knight
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...
Textual Production Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny
Collingwood, after a distinguished naval career which famously included taking over commnd of the British fleet when Nelson was killed at Trafalgar, died at sea on 7 March 1810. His body landed at Greenwich...
Textual Production Hannah Cowley
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...
Textual Production Carola Oman
CO 's biography of Britain's national naval hero, Nelson (probably her best-known achievement), appeared in the USA the year before its English publication, likely on account of wartime paper shortages.
Oman, Carola. Nelson. Doubleday.
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Textual Production Anne Damer
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...
Textual Production Carola Oman
CO 's work on a series of leaders from the time of the Napoleonic wars resulted in an invitation to lecture to the Royal Society of Literature about reading the writings of Nelson , Collingwood
Textual Production Clemence Dane
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 .
British Book News. British Council.
(1943): 172
Textual Production Clemence Dane
CD published a novel entitled He Brings Great News, inspired by her recent editing of Nelson , which treats the battle of Trafalgar.
Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research.
10: 134
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Textual Production Robert Southey
RS published in two volumes what became a classic biography, The Life of Nelson.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ellis Cornelia Knight
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 ...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Frances O'Neill
The volume includes poems of natural description, of meditation, and of political comment. FON expresses delight at the election victory on 9 August 1802 (in John Wilkes's old constituency of Middlesex) of Sir Francis Burdett
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Julia Frankau
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Melesina Trench
Her travel journal (and the excerpt given in The Times) records trenchant criticisms of Horatio Nelson and particularly of his mistress, Emma, Lady Hamilton , who failed in several respects to live up to...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Helen Maria Williams
Published in two volumes, by G. G. and J. Robinson , this opens with further discussion of Switzerland, after a preface written with maturity and confidence in her own ability to deflect hostile criticism...

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