Arthur Wellesley first Duke of Wellington

BBBD was a woman whose talent and energy found many other outlets besides writing. She performed as a fortune-teller at a social gathering.Fanny Kemble in Recollections of a Girlhood remembered her as a...

Mrs Littleton was a niece of the Duke of Wellington .

AO 's admiration for military heroes also extended to Kosciusko and later to the Duke of Wellington and General Lafayette . In other respects, however, she fully shared the anti-war stance of her fellow Quakers.

The apochryphal story that the Duke of Wellington returned one of Wilson's blackmailing letters with the scribbled annotation write and be d—d (universally converted by folklore to publish and be damned) originates not...

Charlotte Brontë wrote to CG to voice her admiration: not the echo of another mind—the pale reflection of a reflection—but the result of original observation, and faithful delineation from actual life.Edward Copeland finds...

Guizot , the French Minister of Public Instruction, was ordered by Louis Philippe to translate the Illustrations for the French national schools. He considered HM to be the only woman ever to have affected legislation...

Her new house was one of the first completed on a new estate by builder-entrepreneur Thomas Cubitt . In January 1838, when she and her husband moved in, the area was still green, almost rural...

After leaving Staffordshire the Leveson-Gower family moved to Suffolk to live at Wherstead Lodge near Ispwich.GF recollected an eventful visit to Wherstead Lodge by the Duke of Wellington in 1822 or 1823...

The novel oddly mixes rendering its central characters' inner lives with bald enumeration of armies, battles, forced marches. It follows George Thomas through his extraordinary conquest of the Punjab, through a growing melancholy and...

This book is character-driven in AF 's accustomed manner, featuring Whig reformers, Tory reactionaries, and those dubbed revolutionaries like Daniel O'Connell and William Cobbett . Its story opens in November 1831 with a famous pronouncement...

The novel is unashamedly partisan. Paula R. Feldman calls it a roman à clef. The rhetoric of repeal is introduced through the figure of Jim Cassidy, Grace's husband, who has already excused breaking his oath...

The Memoirs' opening moves smoothly from the famous shock of the first sentence into a tone of judicious complexity: I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the...

Susan Buchan (later ST ) published her first biography, taking as a subject one of her collateral ancestors, The Sword of State: Wellington after Waterloo.

CO 's work on a series of leaders from the time of the Napoleonic wars resulted in an invitation to lecture to the Royal Society of Literature about reading the writings of Nelson , Collingwood

MC continued to publish during the second decade of the twentieth century; only some of this late output is mentioned here. She returned to Ulster for The Golden Bow, 1912, whose heroine has an...