William Lord Russell

The young widow Rachel, Lady Vaughan , married William Russell , and acquired the name by which she is known to history.

Trollope was a friend of William Thackeray , G. H. Lewes , Richard Monckton Milnes , George Eliot , William Russell , and John Everett Millais . Of Eliot he wrote: this gifted woman was...

SLC flags some items of her own under Observe by beginning them I observe. In a series about books of the Bible she comments in some detail on the behaviour of King Saul and...

She had been invited to edit and publish these letters by their current owner, the Duke of Devonshire (to whose sisters she was particularly close). At first this work made an intellectual occupation for her...

HB acted at Drury Lane Theatre in the role of Lady Rachel Russell in Thomas Stratford 's tragedy on the death of Lord Russell .

LRR 's second husband (who became William, Lord Russell , in 1678 by the death of his elder brother) became more and more active in opposition to Charles II . From this time LRR was...

LRR 's husband was accused of High Treason before the Privy Council and sent to the Tower of London.

LRR attended her husband 's trial at the Old Bailey. She was there in two capacities: so that she could make notes of the proceedings, as she later did, and in the hope of arousing...

William and Mary vindicated the memory of LRR 's husband by reversing the attainder on him, six years after he was executed.

The second part opens with quotations from Cicero and Voltaire . It includes a picture of connubial love gone sour, turned to mutual wrongs, and mutual hate. Its examples of heroic friendship include...

LRR wrote the first of the thirty letters to her husband that survived for Mary Berry to publish in 1819.

LRR wrote the last of her thirty surviving letters to her husband .

Mary Berry published a brief biography of LRR , with some unpublished letters including thirty to her husband .

The work appeared with an introduction Vindicating the Character of Lord Russel , Against Sir John Dalrymple , &c: LRR , that is, was seen as having historical rather than literary interest.

The speech that William Russell delivered on the scaffold was written in consultation with his wife, who then circulated it in five copies each billed as original. Her papers at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire...