During her first marriage CG
lived mainly at Dowlais House, in the centre of the Dowlais ironworks near Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. From the very moment I entered it I felt quite settled...
Textual Production
Selina Davenport
In a concluding paragraph SD
says that this book was written under every disadvantage of continued illness, and a mind enfeebled by the chilling touch of adversity, and the sad realities of blighted hopes. She...
Timeline
1841-1863
The Houses of Parliament were rebuilt in the Gothic style by Charles Barry
and Augustus Pugin
, following their destruction by fire in October 1834.
January 1850
A Royal Commission was established to administer the Great Exhibition.
