Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under Henry Fawcett
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Characters | Augusta Gregory | In the pamphlet Gladstone
's phantom returns from the dead to witness the ruinous consequences of Home Rule, for which he had fought. AG
later moved toward an acceptance of Home Rule, but at this... |
Cultural formation | Edith Lyttelton | Little is known about EL
's life before she met her famous husband. An unpublished memoir held by the Churchill Archives Centre
at Churchill College
, Cambridge, may provide more information. |
Education | Harriet Hamilton King | From an early age, she demonstrated an eagerness to learn and to read. When she was eleven years old, Harriet read Italy, A Poem by Samuel Rogers
. Between the ages fourteen and seventeen, she... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Lyttelton | Alfred Lyttelton
delayed entering politics until his uncle the Prime Minister William Gladstone
resigned, because he could not agree with him on the subject of Irish Home Rule. Before the general election of 25 June... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | When they met in May 1865, she was almost eighteen and he thirty-two. He served as Postmaster-General in Gladstone
's government of 1880. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. under Henry Fawcett |
Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Fullerton | Of GF
's three brothers,:Granville George
, who inherited the title, was a politician who became Gladstone's
Foreign Secretary; William
died young following an accident; and Freddy
, who also became a politician, edited... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
's father was the sixth William Rathbone
in a Lancashire family which was Quaker
, Unitarian
, Liberal
and philanthropic. For six generations this family had been the epitome of fair trading, plain speaking... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Lyttelton | The mother of Alfred Lyttelton (youngest of twelve children of the fourth Baron Lyttelton) had died six months after he was born. He was a successful lawyer and became a top athlete in English sport... |
Friends, Associates | Louisa May Alcott | LMA
was a friend of, among others, Frances Hodgson Burnett
, Ralph Waldo Emerson
, who helped her family manage their financial difficulties, and Henry David Thoreau
, who taught science to her and her... |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Tynan | In LondonKT
met the politician William Gladstone
(a supporter of Home Rule for Ireland) at a party given for Charles Parnell
. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder, 1913. 328-9 |
Friends, Associates | Gertrude Bell | Her closest friend at Oxford was Mary Talbot
, niece of William Gladstone
. Other friends included Edith Langridge
and Janet Hogarth
, sister of archaeologist David Hogarth
. Wallach, Janet. Desert Queen. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1996, . 22 |
Friends, Associates | Alfred Tennyson | A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald
, Coventry Patmore
, Edward Lear
, William Ewart Gladstone |
Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | AS
's circle of friends (very largely brought her by her translations) included Henry Crabb Robinson
, Tennyson
, Robert Browning
(who told her he wished she had known his wife), James Martineau
(brother of... |
Friends, Associates | Emily Lawless | |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Among her nineteenth-century visitors were Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(brought by Joseph Cottle
the Bristol bookseller), Cottle, Joseph. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. 2nd ed., Houlston and Stoneman, 1847. 54 |