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Travel | Charlotte Brontë | CB
also had a confrontation with George Henry Lewes
. She attended the House of Commons
, the Chapel Royal
, where she saw her hero the Duke of Wellington
, and a meeting of... |
Travel | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | MACB
spent the winter of 1815-16 in Paris, where her son and daughter-in-law were also staying, and where the Duke of Wellington
was holding court after the battle of Waterloo. Stone, Lawrence. Broken Lives. Oxford University Press. 300 |
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... |
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... |
Textual Features | Eva Mary Bell | The novel oddly mixes rendering its central characters' inner lives with bald enumeration of armies, battles, forced marches. It follows George Thomas through his extraordinary conquest of the Punjab, through a growing melancholy and... |
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... |
Occupation | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | BBBD
was a woman whose talent and energy found many other outlets besides writing. She performed as a fortune-teller at a social gathering. Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray. 18 |
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