Benjamin Disraeli

His friends included Benjamin Disraeli , Charles Dickens , John Forster , and Thomas Babington Macaulay . Later in life he conducted a long, mentoring friendship by letter with Mary Elizabeth Braddon . He also...

EAP met Mary Russell Mitford in summer 1822 at the London house of Mrs Vardill: presumably the mother of the Romantic poet Anna Jane Vardill . Vardill was a friend and associate from...

Her work for the annuals led to her connection with Lady Blessington and her niece Marguerite Power . Despite the disapproval of other friends she was a regular visitor to Blessington's home, Gore House...

CG 's friends included Benjamin Disraeli (with whom she shared poetical enthusiasms before her first marriage), and her cousin Henry Layard , who became famous as an archaeologist (the discoverer of ancient Nineveh) and who...

In London in 1824 she had a socially unsuccessful meeting with Wordsworth , who was by now a thorough reactionary in politics. He went to some pains to snub her; she refused to notice this...

After meeting AW , Benjamin Disraeli described her as awfully revolutionary.

After Benjamin Disraeli first became Prime Minister, somewhat briefly, on 27 April 1866, Victoria encountered a type of politician which was new to her. Prince Albert had distrusted Disraeli and favoured Gladstone ; Victoria found...

Before her marriage CN had formed a friendship with the Irish poet Tom Moore , once a crony of her famous grandfather; this friendship endured into her middle age. It was also as Richard Brinsley...

MB met Lord Derby and Benjamin Disraeli at Burghley House in Stamford, when, despite their repeal four years earlier, the strife over the Corn Laws was still raging.

Lewis 's cautious review drew an ill-tempered and lengthy response generated by AMKR 's belief that he had also insulted Queen Victoria (and to a lesser degree Disraeli ). She writes in the vitriolic fashion...

In an extraordinary passage near the end of the book, Cecil lists a number of people who might, if they could only work together, revolutionize the country. The names he mentions include actual...

The book, according to BB 's preface, focused on the expectations and attitudes of six families, three in the North and three in the South. It has an epigraph from Benjamin Disraeli 's Sybil...

The title comes from Disraeli , whom she quotes on the title-page: Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. She divides the volume into two parts: the first, 1896-1906, covers...

She had been still writing it in the USA and after her return to London at the beginning of this year after its serialization had begun. A New York edition posthumously published this month...

In London, Eliza Lynn drank in artistic life. She championed the singing of Jenny Lind against those who preferred Alboni or Malibran. She performed for Samuel Laurence the role of uninformed art critic or foolometer...