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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Catherine Gore | Charlotte Brontë
wrote to CG
to voice her admiration: not the echo of another mind—the pale reflection of a reflection—but the result of original observation, and faithful delineation from actual life. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 129 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucille Iremonger | Her research uncovered the fact that fifteen out of twenty-four prime ministers from Wellington
to Chamberlain
were orphans or illegitimate—even though the 1921 census, soon after the steep rise in mortality brought by the first... |
Occupation | Anna Brownell Jameson | Mrs Littleton
was a niece of the Duke of Wellington
. Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press. 17 |
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. 2 |
Travel | Lady Caroline Lamb | LCL
was visiting Paris, where the Bourbon monarchy had just been restored. She was in the train of the Duke of Wellington
, who had been appointed ambassador there (and had received his ducal... |
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writes in her unpublished autobiography about the eleven siblings of her father, Francis Julian Mackworth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. 5 Bowker, Gordon. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. The Independent. |
Textual Features | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | The novel is unashamedly partisan. Paula R. Feldman
calls it a roman à clef. The rhetoric of repeal is introduced through the figure of Jim Cassidy, Grace's husband, who has already excused breaking his oath... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | This book had a star-studded cast: sundry fashionable ladies, and notables like Byron
, Shelley
, Landor
, Disraeli
, the Duke of Wellington
, Lord John Russell
, Palmerston
, and Sir Robert Peel
. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. |
Reception | Harriet Martineau | Guizot
, the French Minister of Public Instruction, was ordered by Louis Philippe
to translate the Illustrations for the French national schools. He considered HM
to be the only woman ever to have affected legislation... |
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 |
politics | Amelia Opie | AO
's admiration for military heroes also extended to Kosciusko
and later to the Duke of Wellington
and General Lafayette
. In other respects, however, she fully shared the anti-war stance of her fellow Quakers. Mahon, Penny. “In Sermon and Story: contrasting anti-war rhetoric in the work of Anna Barbauld and Amelia Opie”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 1, pp. 23-38. 32 |
Travel | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
and her husband, Sir Charles Eastlake
, cut their holiday short and left Venice for London to attend the November funeral of the Duke of Wellington
. Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press. 1: 299 Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 100 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Smythies | The first canto of the poem, in a mix of heroic couplets and quatrains in the same iambic pentameter line, expresses loyal indignation at the cowardly tumult raised against a prince who is defenceless as... |
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 , pp. 12-35. 32 |
Residence | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Her new house was one of the first completed on a new estate by builder-entrepreneur Thomas Cubitt
. In January 1838, when she and her husband moved in, the area was still green, almost rural... |
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