Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research.
Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington
Standard Name: Wellington, Arthur Wellesley,,, first Duke of
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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
. |
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writes in her unpublished autobiography about the eleven siblings of her father, Francis Julian Mackworth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. |
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 | Annie Keary | AK
's father, William Keary, was the only son of an Irish gentleman Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan. 2 |
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 |
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... |
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 |
Residence | Georgiana Fullerton | After leaving Staffordshire the Leveson-Gower family moved to Suffolk to live at Wherstead Lodge near Ispwich. Craven, Pauline. Life of Lady Georgiana Fullerton. Translator Coleridge, Henry James, R. Bentley and Son. 7 |
Textual Features | Antonia Fraser | This book is character-driven in AF
's accustomed manner, featuring Whig reformers, Tory reactionaries, and those dubbed revolutionaries like Daniel O'Connell
and William Cobbett
. Its story opens in November 1831 with a famous pronouncement... |
Textual Production | May Crommelin | MC
continued to publish during the second decade of the twentieth century; only some of this late output is mentioned here. She returned to Ulster for The Golden Bow, 1912, whose heroine has an... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Charles | The novel tells the story of its female narrator's life during the evangelical revival in the Napoleonic era, [and] proposes religion as the antidote for revolution. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
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. 222 Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century. 272 |
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. 45 Byron, Augusta Ada. Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers. Editor Toole, Betty A., Strawberry Press. 47 |
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... |
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