Giuseppe Garibaldi

FMP 's uncle Colonel John Whitehead Peard was a barrister who gave up the law to fight with Garibaldi 's forces in the campaign for Italian unification. In 1869 he was Sheriff of Cornwall.

FMP 's acquaintance with Charlotte Yonge began in connection with her writing for Yonge's Monthly Paper of Sunday Teaching a paper on the Jewish Sects (Old Testament, no doubt), which Yonge intended to publish...

ER and her husband, Sir Charles Eastlake , attended Gladstone 's party for the Italian patriot Garibaldi , who was visiting England.

This novel is set in the Rome of Garibaldi and Pius IX , during Italy's revolutionary era. The protagonist is a young opera singer drawn into politics. The Feminist Companion says the novel is notable...

After moving to a village called Gargilesse, GS continued to write prolifically, producing between 1857 and 1862 thirteen novels, three plays, a biography of Garibaldi , and an introduction to a history of the Commedia dell'Arte .

A chivalric romance in verse, the work tells the tale of Queen Isabel , her husband King John and the Plantangenet struggle. During the poem's narrative, Isabel makes the mistake of marrying John but manages...

LV 's father, James White , was a silk merchant during her childhood and adolescence. His career forced him to move to China in 1841, and his family followed shortly afterwards without the five- or...