Evelyn Baring, first Earl of Cromer

Through her association with Jeyes, FS met such literary figures as H. G. Wells and W. B. Yeats . She also campaigned for the Anti-Suffrage League and met key figures in the group, including its...

During Amabel's childhood, visitors to the St Loe Strachey household included the powerful and famous, mostly diplomats, millionaires, politicians. She met diplomat Lord Cromer , newspaper proprietor Lord Northcliffe (then Alfred Harmsworth), industrialist Arthur Balfour

Without supporting any political party, EG held conservative political views throughout her life. She opposed the suffrage movement during its struggle, but years later, writing her autobiography with an eye to posterity, she revised her...

The winter of 1888-1889 was spent in Egypt, where she held interviews with Evelyn Baring, first Earl of Cromer (the head of the British occupation), and observed life in Cairo harems under Zebehr Pasha 's patronage.