Giuseppe Garibaldi

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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

FMP published in the Cornhill Magazine reminiscences of her uncle Colonel John Whitehead Peard and of Garibaldi , with whose forces Colonel Peard had fought in Italy.

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...

By 1858 she was in correspondence with Harriet Martineau . She also knew John Stuart Mill , Giuseppe Garibaldi , James Clark , Edwin Chadwick , William Rathbone , Julia Wedgwood , Elizabeth Barrett Browning

JWM published her accounts of the Franco-Prussian War in the Scotsman after joining Garibaldi 's troops while they fought alongside their former enemy, France.

Vita di Giuseppe Garibaldi, JWM 's biography of the Italian revolutionary, appeared.

JWM contributed a one-volume supplement to Alice Werner 's English translation of the Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi.

JWM made her literary debut in Eliza Cook's Journal, but it was her involvement in the Italian Risorgimento (sometimes as a spy) that fostered her career as a journalist, translator, propagandist, lecturer, and biographer...

She travelled with one of Garibaldi 's sons , who needed medical attention in England.

She arrived in London determined to study medicine so that she could serve as a field nurse during Garibaldi 's campaigns. She was refused entry to fourteen London hospitals. On 10 July 1856, a representative...