Uglow, Jennifer S., and Frances Hinton, editors. Continuum Dictionary of Women’s Biography. 2nd ed., Continuum, 1989.
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Horatio Nelson
Standard Name: Nelson, Horatio
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Gatty | Margaret's father, the Rev. Alexander John Scott
, had been chaplain to Nelson
on the Victory. As well as a naval chaplain he was a passionate lover of books and music and, unofficially, a diplomat... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Seacole | Mary Grant
married Edwin Horatio Seacole
(a godson of Lord Nelson
), who died in 1844. Anionwu, Elizabeth. Mary Seacole, 1805-1881. May 2005, http://www.wolfson.tvu.ac.uk/maryseacole/pages/index.html. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | May Edginton | Francis Baily
was a novelist and one-time editor of Royal Magazine. It was in the context of the magazine that they met, as ME
was one of its contributors. Baily was the author from... |
| Friends, Associates | Melesina Trench | Wherever she went on her first European trip she had access to exclusive circles of society. She met Nelson
and his mistress, Emma, Lady Hamilton
, the writer Antoine de Rivarol
, Napoleon's brother Lucien Bonaparte |
| Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | On their previous visit to Naples in 1785, the Knights had met Sir William Hamilton
, the British ambassador there, as well as the rulers, Ferdinand
and Maria Carolina
. On their return to Naples... |
| Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | As her mother had wished, once back in England ECK
placed herself under the protection of powerful friends made abroad: Sir William Hamilton
(British Ambassador to the court of the Two Sicilies), his wife Emma, Lady Hamilton |
| Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | The rumours continued to plague all those concerned after the Hamiltons and Nelson returned to England (by which time, in fact, Emma Hamilton
was pregnant by Nelson
). Knight, Ellis Cornelia. The Autobiography of Miss Knight. Editor Fulford, Roger, William Kimber & Co., 1960. 78 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Ellis Cornelia Knight | During ECK
's stay on the Foudroyant, Nelson
's flagship, in 1800, she began a sketchbook which contains thirty-seven watercolours. It is inscribed: This book was commenced at Palermo in Sicily, 1800. Finished at Windsor, 1806. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| names | Juliana Horatia Ewing |
|
| Occupation | William Beckford | WB
entertained Nelson
and Sir William
and Lady Hamilton
in fantastic splendour at Fonthill. Clarke, Stephen. “Abbeys Real and Imagined: Northanger, Fonthill and Aspects of the Gothic Revival”. Persuasions, Vol. 20 , 1998, pp. 93-105. 102-3 |
| Publishing | Anna Atkins | This makes a very different appearance from her former novels. Published by Routledge, Warne, and Routledge
in their series Routledge's Cheap Literature at eighteen pence, it sports a paper-on-board cover with an illustration of a... |
| Publishing | Evelyn Sharp | ES
took up full-time the great profession of journalism in 1904, Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933. 93 |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Bentley | EB
published at Norwich an ode on Nelson
's death at the battle of Trafalgar. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Residence | Ellis Cornelia Knight | They fled from Naples, capital of the kingdom of Naples and Sicily or the Two Sicilies, at about the same time as its king. The royal family (Ferdinand
and Maria Carolina
) escaped from... |
| Textual Features | Hélène Barcynska | In their love lives each narrowly avoids disaster but only Vista is destined for happiness. Maggy takes as her model Emma Hamilton
, the poor girl who became Nelson
's mistress, and dreams of a... |
Timeline
1-3 August 1798: In the Battle of the Nile (also known as...
National or international item
1-3 August 1798
In the Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir (or Abu Qir) Bay), the British fleet
under Nelson
attacked and in large part destroyed the fleet of revolutionary France.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Nelson
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xv
Macleod, Emma Vincent. “A city invincible? Edinburgh and the war against Revolutionary France”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 153-66. 159
21 October 1805: Britain defeated Napoleonic France in a battle...
National or international item
21 October 1805
Britain defeated Napoleonic France in a battle off Cape Trafalgar; Nelson
was fatally wounded.
Brett, Simon, b. 1945, editor. The Faber Book of Diaries. Faber, 1987.
380
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
858
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1843: Thirty-eight years after the British naval...
Building item
1843
Thirty-eight years after the British naval victory of Trafalgar, the basic structure of Nelson
's Column, erected in the newly developed Trafalgar Square in honour of the victor, was finally completed.
Colley, Linda. “Powered by Fear”. London Review of Books, 3 Feb. 2005, pp. 14-15.
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