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...
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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...
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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...
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Annie Keary
AK
's father, William Keary, was the only son of an Irish gentleman
Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan, 1882.
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from Galway, a former army officer. The family lost its money and land, and he had to sell his commission...
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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writes in her unpublished autobiography about the eleven siblings of her father, Francis Julian Mackworth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.
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His family were Welsh coal-owners of the more liberal persuasion.
Bowker, Gordon. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. The Independent, 1 Aug. 2006.
He was killed while serving as an...
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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...
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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...
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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.