George Nathaniel Marquess Curzon

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...

Difficulties for the College then arose as a result of friction among its all-female staff. When Miss Moberly retired, her protégée Miss Jourdain became Principal, and she in turn promoted her favourite, Miss Cecilia Ady

In 1903 EG , bored with her marriage, fell for Lord Milner , an imperialist politician who had been the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette and a civil servant in Egypt.

Her romantic attraction to Lord Curzon resurfaced when he went out of his way to compliment her on this production. Her previous determination to be faithful to her husband was now weakened by passion and...

JOH had a number of intimate relationships with men, including Lord Robert Crewe and George Nathaniel Curzon , whose name was linked with hers before his marriage in 1895, and again in the very few...

She made many friends and acquaintances both as a figure in society and as an author. These included literary people such as George Meredith , Thomas Hardy , Punch editor Owen Seaman , William Archer

The bronze portrait memorial to JOH was unveiled at University College, London , by Lord Curzon in the presence of herparents , assorted peers and dignitaries, and writers including Thomas Hardy and Anthony Hope

The expedition undertaken ran through the mountains of Muscat and elsewhere in Oman on the borders of Saudi Arabia and the present day United Arab Emirates. It was led by Sultan Said bin Taimur

Set in British India (the imaginary British base of Pilaghur in the province of Ghoom), this story takes a darker view of the imperial enterprise than SJD 's recent, Canadian, better-known The Imperialist. There...

Her letters were much enjoyed by her friends. At a memorial event two years after her death, Lord Curzon recalled receiving from her a letter written in Greek iambics—surely a novel feat in 20th century...

EG wrote her next romance novel, Halcyone (which appeared in June 1912), in order to establish herself as a serious writer and to counterbalance her previous novel, which was written obviously and exclusively for...

She begins by defining what romance means to her, and she explains that in her life the fundamental impulse behind every action, has been the desire for romance. To her, romance is ideal love—spiritual...

For Egypt they sailed from Trieste via Brindisi to Alexandria. After seeing the sights of ancient Egypt (about which she wrote several poems), DW felt saddened and a little enlightened. They then went...

JOH travelled extensively, often in her role as a now-famous author. She had first revisited the United States, after leaving it as a baby, in May 1886. She saw much of England and...