Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan, 1882.
2
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Power Cobbe | Before his marriage Charles Cobbe
served as a cornet in India with the 19th Light Dragoons
; his commission was in part lent by his commander, Arthur Wellesley
, the future Duke of Wellington. He... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Annie Keary | AK
's father, William Keary, was the only son of an Irish gentleman Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan, 1882. 2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Cecily Mackworth | CM
writes in her unpublished autobiography about the eleven siblings of her father, Francis Julian Mackworth
. Mackworth, Cecily. Out of the Black Mountains. 2006. 5 Bowker, Gordon. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. The Independent, 1 Aug. 2006. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriette Wilson | While she was kept by the Marquess of Lorne, HW
indulged herself in a brief affair with the future Duke of Wellington
, who was at the time no celebrity and no strong attraction to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | According to her first daughter-in-law
writing years later, MACB
suggested, while she and the young people were in Paris, that Emily ought to advance her husband's career by either sleeping with or at least... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Susan Tweedsmuir | Through her father ST
was great-great-niece of the first Duke of Wellington
. Tweedsmuir, Susan. The Lilac and the Rose. G. Duckworth, 1952. 15 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Maria Tucker | CMT
's father, Henry St George Tucker
, lived in India from the age of fourteen to that of thirty-nine. A prominent citizen of Bengal, with expertise in Indian affairs and finance, he eventually became... |
Friends, Associates | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | Her many literary friendships, maintained in part by correspondence, included those with Joanna Baillie
and Mary Russell Mitford
(who first met each other in her drawing-room), Catherine Fanshawe
, and Mary Tighe
(with whom she... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Berry | Despite her relative poverty, MB
moved easily in circles of the great and the good. Her closest friends were Anne Damer
(whose death in 1828 was a terrible loss), Joanna Baillie
(whom in 1831 she... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Eleanor Butler | Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward
, Henrietta Maria Bowdler
(who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB
as her veillard [sic] or old... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | JWC
watched the Duke of Wellington
's elaborately staged funeral procession from Bath House. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986. 222 Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992. 272 |
Leisure and Society | Mary Boyle | MB
had a lifelong interest in the theatre; she attended performances frequently and she, her family, and friends were frequently involved in acting and producing plays privately. On one occasion in 1837 she found herself... |
Leisure and Society | Charlotte Maria Tucker | The Tuckers had an active social life. The children acted in their father's plays, and as they grew older the family often entertained at home or attended dinner parties. The fancy-dress ball they gave for... |
Leisure and Society | Augusta Ada Byron | In the spring of 1833 AAB
was presented at Court, where she met the Duke of Wellington
among others. Byron, Augusta Ada. Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers. Editor Toole, Betty A., Strawberry Press, 1992. 45 Byron, Augusta Ada. Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers. Editor Toole, Betty A., Strawberry Press, 1992. 47 |
Leisure and Society | Germaine de Staël | Her next salon was frequented by such luminaries as Alexander I
, Talleyrand
, and the Duke of Wellington
. Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , 2001, pp. 12-35. 32 |
No bibliographical results available.