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under (Jane) Emily Gerard
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Family and Intimate relationships | Grace Elliott | In her earliest years in Paris she was the mistress first of the comte d'Artois (who much later reigned as Charles X
) and then of the duc de Chartres (later duc d'Orléans
, later... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothea Gerard | Her mother, Euphemia Robinson
, a talented amateur pianist, became a Roman Catholic not long after the birth of Dorothea's sister Emily. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under (Jane) Emily Gerard Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896. 147 |
Friends, Associates | Felicia Skene | From her youth FS
was accustomed to mixing with distinguished people. Sir Walter Scott
, a friend of both of her parents, found her youthful company a relief when he was old and ill. In... |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | ECK
continued through the later part of her life to cultivate relationships with royalty and the aristocracy, of her own nation and others. Her friendships with Lord St Vincent
and with Lady Aylesbury (or Ailesbury) |
politics | George Sand | The meeting of Aurore Dudevant (later GS
) with Sandeau coincided with the end of the Three Glorious Days when Charles X
abdicated, leaving the throne for his nephew Louis Philippe of Orléans
. In... |
Residence | Ellis Cornelia Knight | Having spent three years in Paris, from 1821 to 1824, and begun to regard that, rather than England, as her home, ECK
returned there on August 15, 1830, but she did not stay long... |
Textual Production | Mary Berry | Again the title-page describes her as the Editor of Madame Du Deffand's Letters. On 25 April 1828 she added the final chapter to describe the July Revolution of 1830 (for which, she says, she... |
Textual Production | Emmuska Baroness Orczy | She had intended to produce a historical romance about this woman, who married a son of Charles X
, the last king of France, but she found the actual story so exciting and so colourful... |
Textual Production | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | Sydney Morgan
published France in 1829-30, her second book about that country, just after the French king Charles X
had been toppled by revolution. The July Revolution raged from 27 to 29 July, and... |
Travel | Amelia Opie | She was back there again in August the following year, after the revolution of July and the abdication of Charles X
on 2 August. She then travelled to Cornwall (her late husband's place of origin)... |
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