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death | Mary Frances Billington | The funeral took place at Chalbury, of which her father had been rector and where both her parents were also buried. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 44053 (29 August 1925): 13 |
death | John Oliver Hobbes | A requiem mass was held for JOH
at the JesuitChurch of the Immaculate Conception in Farm Street, London, with an address given by Hobbes's friend Monsignor William Francis Brown
. She was buried... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | The Prince of Wales, and heir to the throne of Britain, Edward Albert
, married Princess Alexandra of Denmark
. Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996. xvi |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elinor Glyn | James Wallace
, husband of EG
's sister Lucy
, gambled and drank their money away. Lucy finally divorced him in 1889; her mother paid for the divorce with the little money that David Kennedy... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton first Earl Lytton | On 4 October 1864 Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
married Edith Villiers
, who had a yearly income of £6,000. Together they had three daughters and four sons. After her husband's death, Edith fell into financial... |
Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | |
Leisure and Society | Sarah Macnaughtan | SM
was formally presented at Buckingham Palace in London as part of her coming out, which was a young girl's rite of passage into high society. She was presented to the Princess of Wales
instead... |
Leisure and Society | Fanny Kingsley | FK
was well respected by the family's social circle, and attended several notable events with her husband. Both Charles and Fanny Kingsley were invited to the wedding on 10 March 1863 of Edward, Prince of Wales |
Occupation | Kate Marsden | She also was received by the Princess of Wales
who soon afterwards provided her with a personal introduction to the Empress of Russia
. The empress in turn facilitated KM
's relationships with people in... |
Occupation | Mary Seacole | In the 1870s MS
developed a friendship with Alexandra
(wife of Edward Prince of Wales
), to whom she acted as unofficial masseuse though she was by this time in her late sixties. Andrews, William L., and Mary Seacole. “Introduction”. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. xxvii - xxxiv. xxxiii Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
politics | John Strange Winter | JSW
's interest in animal welfare was linked to her passion for dress reform, notably her opposition to the use of birds in decoration or fashion (a letter she wrote to Charlotte Yonge
details how... |
Textual Production | Emma Robinson | ER
turned from prose to poetry to issue, again as the author of Whitefriars, an Epithalamium in honour of the marriage of their Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Princess of Wales. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Marie Belloc Lowndes | Thirty-six years after this publication, MBL
wrote of the way [m]uch is left out that should have been put into official biographies, because of the writer's need to keep a nervous eye cocked on certain... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosa Nouchette Carey | In her introduction, Carey expresses her wish that her sketches of twelve noble and useful lives be read and studied by women of this generation, and go and do thou likewise be written upon some... |
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