Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part III:

Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale, Annie Besant and Millicent Garrett Fawcett by their Contemporaries

Contents

Volume 1: Queen Victoria

Anon, ‘Birth Announcement’, The Times (1819); Anon, ‘Eighteenth Birthday Celebration’, The Times (1837); ‘The Coronation’, Annual Register (1838); ‘The Bed-Chamber Crisis’, Annual Register (1839); ‘The Wedding Ceremony’, Annual Register (1840); Tallis’s Illustrated London (1851) (excerpt); Margaret Olphant, ‘The Queen of the Highlands’, Edinburgh Review (1868); Charles Bradlaugh, The Impeachment of the House of Brunswick (1871); ‘The National Thanksgiving’, Annual Register (1872); Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates (1876); James Brinsley Richards and E C Grenville-Murray, 'Queen Victoria', Temple Bar (1884); Daryl Philippe, Public Life in England (1884); Georgiana Baroness Bloomfield, Reminiscences of Court and Diplomatic Life (1885); Anon, ‘The Meeting of Queen Victoria and Chancellor Otto Bismarck’ The Times (1888); Mark Twain, Queen Victoria’s Jubilee (1897); Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates (1901); Anon, ‘The Late Queen’, Harper’s Weekly, (1901); Anon, ‘The Characteristics of Queen Victoria’, Quarterly Review (1901); Marquis of Lorne, V.R.I. Queen Victoria: Her Life and Empire (1901); Walter Walsh, Religious Life and Influence of Queen Victoria (1902); Sir Theodore Martin, Queen Victoria As I Knew Her (1908); The Panmure Papers (1908); Lord Broughton, Recollections of a Long Life (1911); Correspondence of Sarah Spencer Lady Lyttelton 1787–1870 (1912); Letters of Lady Augusta Stanley, a Young Lady at Court, 1849–63 (1927)

Volume 2: Florence Nightingale

Anon, ‘Who is Mrs Nightingale?’ The Times (1854); G Shepherd, ‘Hospital Assistants in the East,’ Letter to the Editor, The Times (1854); Sidney Herbert, ‘Letter to the Editor’, Morning Chronicle (1854); Letter from Osborne to Herbert (1854); ‘The Nightingale in the East’ (1854); Anon, ‘The Nightingale’s Song to the Sick Soldier’, Punch (1854); Sidney Herbert, MP, The Conduct of the War: A Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 12th of December, 1854 (1854); Anon, ‘A Nightingale in the Camp’, Punch (1855); Reverend Sydney Godolphin Osborne, Scutari and its Hospitals (1855) ; ‘Miss Nightingale…Balaclava’, Illustrated London News (1855); Anon, ‘The Nightingale’s Nest.’ Punch (1855); Anon, Florence Nightingale and the Crimea, 1854–55 (1855–56); Anon, ‘Miss Nightingale’s Carriage at the Seat of War,’ Illustrated London News (1856); Anon, Eastern Hospitals and English Nurses; The Narrative of Twelve Months’ Experience in the Hospitals of Koulali and Scutari by a Lady Volunteer (1856) ; Anon, ‘The Nightingale’s Return’, Punch (1856); Anon, ‘The Sultan and the Nurses of Scutari,’ Illustrated London News (1856); Anon, ‘The Nightingale at Oxford’ Punch (1856); Peter Pincoffs, Experiences of a Civilian in Eastern Military Hospitals (1857); Anon, ‘Santa Filomena’, Atlantic Monthly (1857); Edward ILB Campbell, The Heroine of Scutari, and Other Poems (1857); Anon, ‘Two Noble Women’, Harper’s Weekly (1857); Alexis Soyer, ‘A Culinary Campaign’ Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (1858); Mary Cowden Clarke, 'Florence Nightingale', World-Noted Women; or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages (1858); Ingleby Scott [Harriet Martineau], ‘Representative Women. The Free Nurse’, Once a Week (1860); Charles Shrimpton, The Crimean War: The British Army and Miss Nightingale (1864); Anon., A Woman’s Example; and a Nation’s Work: A Tribute to Florence Nightingale (1864); W C Maclean, ‘Miss Nightingale on Theories of Disease.’ The Lancet (1870) ; Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Some Eminent Women of our Times (1889); E F Pollard, Florence Nightingale: The Wounded Soldier’s Friend (1891); Lizzie Alldridge, The World’s Workers: Florence Nightingale…..Mrs Ranyard (1893); Robert Meyers, ‘Florence Nightingale’, World-Famous Women: Types of Heroism, Beauty and Influence including the Life, Reign and Diamond Jubilee of Victoria Sixty Years a Queen (1897); Edwin Pratt, Pioneer Women in Victoria’s Reign: Being Short Histories of Great Movements (1897); Reverend W H Fitchett, ‘Fights for the Flag’, Cornhill Magazine (1898); Lord Stanmore, Sidney Herbert, Lord Herbert of Lea, A Memoir (1906) ; Anon, ‘Her Shadow’, Atlantic Monthly (1906); Victoria to Lord Panmure, The Panmure Papers (1908); Major C E Pollock, ‘Original Communications. Florence Nightingale, O.M., R.R.C.’ Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps (1910); Marion Holmes, Florence Nightingale: A Cameo Life-Sketch (1910); F S, ‘The Lady of the Lamp,’ Evening News (1910); Anon [Flora Masson], Florence Nightingale, O M ‘The Lady with the Lamp’: By One who Knew Her (1910); Adelaide Nutting, A Memorial to Florence Nightingale (1910); Mae Peregrine, ‘Florence Nightingale’, American Journal of Nursing (1911); Edna Locke, Medical Seminar Discussions (1912) ; Annie Matheson, Florence Nightingale: A Biography (1912); Mary Aldis, Florence Nightingale: An Appreciation (1914); W Wedderburn, ‘Florence Nightingale on India’, The Contemporary Review (1914); Elizabeth Scovil, ‘Florence Nightingale and her Nurses.’ American Journal of Nursing (1914); Edwin Kopf, ‘Florence Nightingale as Statistician,’ Publications of the American Statistical Association (1916); W J W, The Story of Florence Nightingale: The Heroine of the Crimea; Anon, ‘Desultory Verses by an Old Soldier’ (n.d); Anon, ‘The Ministry to the Sick and Wounded Soldiery in War Times.’ The Missionary Review of the World; Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe; Obituaries and memorials from The Times, The Daily News, The Spectator, British Medical Journal, The Nursing Times

Volume 3: Annie Besant

Reverend Charles Maurice Davies, Mystic London: or, Phases of Occult Life in the Metropolis (1875); Anon, ‘Annie Besant, The Secular Chronicle (1878); Charles Bradlaugh, ‘Review: Modern Socialism by Annie Besant’, The National Reformer (1886); W P Ball, Mrs Besant’s Socialism: An Examination and an Exposure (1886); John M Robertson, ‘Mrs Besant’s Libel Action’, The National Reformer (1889); Charles Bradlaugh, ‘Some Words of Explanation’, National Reformer (1889); G W Foote, Mrs Besant’s Theosophy (1889); R Jagannathiah, ‘Persecution by the Freethinkers’, Theosophist (1890); Dr C R Drysdale, ‘Mrs Annie Besant’s Objections to Neo-Malthusianism’, The Malthusian (1891); W T Stead, ‘Character Sketch: Mrs Annie Besant’, Review of Reviews (1891); Edmund Garrett, Isis Very Much Unveiled, Being the Story of the Great Mahatma Hoax (1894); W E Gladstone, ‘True and False Conceptions of the Atonement’, Nineteenth Century (1894); Anon, ‘Two Noble Lives; and Another’, London Quarterly Review (1894); Anon, ‘Annie Besant, An Autobiography’, Athenaeum (1894); Kaliprasanna Kavyabisharad, Mrs Besant in India: Her Stratagem and Foolishness Exposed (1894); Anon, Who Is Mrs. Besant? And Why Has She Come to India? (1894); Selected Articles, Indian Social Reformer (1894–97); Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner, Charles Bradlaugh: A Record of His Life and Work by His Daughter (1895); Elisabeth Severs, ‘Mrs Annie Besant: Her Work for Women’, Common Cause: The Organ of the Women’s Movement for Reform (1911) ; Henry Mayers Hyndman, Further Reminiscences (1912); George Bernard Shaw, ‘Mrs Besant as a Fabian Socialist’, Theosophist (1917); Bipin Chandra Pal, Mrs Annie Besant: A Psychological Study (1917); Tom Mann, Tom Mann’s Memoirs (1923); Malcolm Quin, Memories of a Positivist (1924); George Lansbury, ‘Mrs Besant as a Politician’, D Annie Besant: Fifty Years in Public Work (1924); Ben Tillett, Memories and Reflections (1931); Ben Tillett, ‘The Good She Did! Annie Besant’s Fight for Dockers’, Empire News (1933); Anon, 'Obituary of Annie Besant', Daily Express (1933); Anon, 'Obituary of Annie Besant', The Times (1933); W T Titterton, ‘Annie Besant’, G K Weekly (1933); Anon, ‘Mrs Frank Besant’, The Guardian (1933); Esther Bright, Old Memories and Letters of Annie Besant (1936)

Volume 4: Millicent Garrett Fawcett

Rebecca Moore, ‘Foreign Correspondence, Dublin to London: Literature by Women’, Revolution (1870); Anon, ‘The Electoral Disabilities of Women’ Brighton Herald (1870); Anon, ‘Foreign Correspondence: Mrs Fawcett’s Lecture in Brighton’, Revolution (1870); The Grosvenor Papers, Female Suffrage: An Answer to Mrs Fawcett, on the Electoral Disabilities of Women (1870); Anon, ‘The audience which assembled last night in the Molesworth Hall ’ Irish Times (1870); Anon, ‘Dublin, Lecture by Mrs Fawcett’ Women’s Suffrage Journal (1870); Letter from J E Cairnes to Mrs Henry Fawcett (1871); Letter from E E Bowen to Mrs Henry Fawcett (1871); Alice Bell LeGeyt, ‘Our English Letter’, Women’s Journal (1871); ME Beedy, ‘Our English Letter’, Women’s Journal (1871); Anon, ‘A Blind Statesman: Professor Fawcett and his Wife’ Women’s Journal (1872); Anon, ‘Current Literature: Tales in Political Economy’, Academy (1874); Anon, ‘Women as Educators’, Women’s Journal (1874); M D Conway, ‘Professor Fawcett,’ Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (1875); James Stuart to Mrs Henry Fawcett (1875); Anon, ‘Mrs Fawcett’s Novel’, The Examiner (1875); Anon, ‘Janet Doncaster’, The Times (1875); Anon, ‘Janet Doncaster’, The British Quarterly Review (1875); Millicent Garrett Fawcett, ‘Speech on Married Women’s Property Rights,' Women’s Suffrage Journal (1880); Anon, ‘Women’s Protective & Provident League’, Women’s Union Journal (1881); Sarah K Bolton ‘Other Famous People’, Harper’s Bazaar (1883); Anon, ‘Obituary of Professor Fawcett’, Woman’s Suffrage Journal (1884); Leslie Stephen, Life of Henry Fawcett (1885); Miss Frances M Buss to Mrs Henry Fawcett (1885); WT Stead to Mrs Fawcett, 'From Holloway Jail' (1885); Anon, ‘An Englishwoman’s Eloquence’, Women’s Journal (1885); Baroness Burdett–Coutts to Mrs Henry Fawcett (1885); Anon, ‘Interview: Mrs Millicent Garrett Fawcett’, Women’s Penny Paper (1888); Anon, ‘Reviews: Some Eminent Women of Our Times’, Women’s Penny Paper (1889); Mrs Lilias Ashworth Hallett to Mrs Henry Fawcett (1889); Mrs Lilias Ashworth Hallett to Mrs Henry Fawcett (1889); Louise Creighton, ‘The Appeal against Female Suffrage: A Rejoinder’, Nineteenth Century (1889); Augustus Harris, ‘Letter to the Editor: The Employment of Children in Pantomime’, The Times (1889); ‘The Employment of Children in Pantomimes’, Three Letters to the Editor, The Times (1889); Mary Jeune, ‘Children in Theatres,’ English Illustrated (1889); W T Stead to Mrs Fawcett, ‘Proposal to found scholarship at Girton or Newnham’ (1890); Anon, ‘Above the Senior Wrangler’, Westminster Gazette (1890); Advertisement for the new edition of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman, with an introduction by Millicent Garrett Fawcett, The Woman’s Herald (1890); Anon, ‘New Publications: Some Eminent Women Of Our Times’, New York Times (1890); Anon, ‘Literary Notes: Some Eminent People of Our Times’, The Woman’s Tribune (1890); Anonymous [FE Garrett?], ‘Millicent Garrett Fawcett & Her Daughter’, Review of Reviews (1890); John F Rolph, ‘Mrs Fawcett at Home’, Women’s World (1890); HM Stanley of Alderley to Mrs Fawcett (1891); Thomas Hardy to Mrs Fawcett (1892); Lady Frances Balfour to Mrs Fawcett (1892); Anon, ‘Women’s Suffrage Mrs Fawcett in Manchester’, Woman’s Herald (1893); Leigh Maclachlan to Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1894 ); K Lyttelton to Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1894); Henry Cust to Millicent Garrett Fawcett Letter (1894); A J Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1894); K Lyttelton to Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1894); Dr W Armstrong to Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1894); K Lyttelton to Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1894); ‘Election Intelligence’, Press cutting relating to the Cust scandal Enclosed with letter (1894); Anon, ‘Persons And Places: Mrs Fawcett’, New York Times (1894); Anon, ‘Mrs Fawcett on Women’s Suffrage’, Woman’s Signal (1894); Anon, ‘Character Sketch: Mrs Henry Fawcett’, Woman’s Signal (1895); Anon, ‘Mrs Fawcett’s Life of the Queen’, Woman’s Signal (1897); Anon, ‘Widows of Distinguished Men: Mrs Fawcett’, Woman’s Life (1898); Sarah A Tooley, ‘Notable Women of the Day: Millicent Garrett Fawcett’, The Woman at Home (1898); Mr James Stuart to Mrs Fawcett (1898); Jennie Chappell, Noble Worker:s Sketches of the Life–Work of Frances Willard, Agnes Weston, Sister Dora, Catherine Booth, The Baroness Burdett–Coutts, Lady Henry Somerset, Sarah Robinson, Mrs Fawcett, and Mrs Gladstone (1898–1903); Lady Frances Balfour to Mrs Henry Fawcett (c.1899); Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Mrs Fawcett (1899 ); Lady Frances Balfour to Mrs Fawcett (1899); Helen Blackburn to Mrs Fawcett (1899); Anon, ‘Education and University Intelligence: St Andrews—Honorary Degree Conferred on Mrs Fawcett’, The Englishwoman’s Review of Social and Industrial Questions (1899); Lady Frances Balfour to Mrs Henry Fawcett (1899); Lady Frances Balfour to Mrs Henry Fawcett (1899); Anon, ‘Suffrage meeting at Queen’s Hall’, The Woman’s Tribune (1899); Susan B Anthony to Mrs Henry Fawcett (1900); ‘Items from Boston: New Edition of Mrs Fawcett’s Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria’, New York Times (1901); Anon, ‘Review, Life of the Rt Hon Sir William Molesworth’, Academy (1901); Mrs Arthur Lyttelton to Mrs Henry Fawcett, ‘Mrs Fawcett’s Commission Report Lecture on Joan of Arc’ (1902); Anon, ‘Review, Life of the Rt Hon Sir William Molesworth’, The Spectator (1902); Anon, ‘The Commission and the Camps’, Daily News (1902); Anon, ‘The Camps Ladies Committee Report Painful Disclosures: Children Burying Dead Companions’, Daily News (1902); ‘The Concentration Camps’, Letters to the Editor from Emily Hobhouse (including an unsigned letter) and C Murray, The Times (1902); Ed Navilly to Mrs Fawcett (1902); Anon, ‘The Concentration Camps’, The Englishwoman’s Review of Social and Industrial Questions (1902); Mary Chamberlain to Mrs Fawcett (1902); Lady Frances Balfour to Mrs Henry Fawcett (1903 ); Susan B Anthony to Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1903); Anon, ‘Review of Five Famous French Women’, The Athenaeum (1905); Arthur and Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, Henry Sidgwick: A Memoir (1906); Thomas Hardy to Mrs Henry Fawcett (1906); A A, ‘The Suffrage’, Women and Progress (1906); Emily Hill ‘Review of The Case for Women's Suffrage’, The Englishwoman’s Review of Social and Industrial Questions (1907); Anon, ‘Mrs Fawcett’s Explanation’, New York Times (1908); Mrs E M Simon, ‘The Latest Phase of the Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reply to Mrs Henry Fawcett, LLD’, Women’s National Anti–Suffrage League Leaflets (1908); E T Cook, Edmund Garrett: A Memoir (1909); Edith Palliser, ‘Profile of Millicent Garrett Fawcett’, Common Cause (1909); Anon, ‘Debate Between Mrs Humphrey Ward and Mrs Fawcett’, The Times (1909); Charles L Graves, Hubert Parry: His Life and Works (1926); B A Clough, ‘Obituary: Dame Millicent Fawcett, Work for Women’s Education’, Manchester Guardian (1929); T P O’Connor, ‘Men, Women, and Memories: Dame Millicent Fawcett A Great Suffragette’, Sunday Times (1929); ‘Obituary: Dame M Fawcett, Suffragist, Dead’, New York Times (1929); ‘Obituary: Dame Millicent Fawcett Death of Famous Suffragist Leader Womanly Woman’, Star (1929); ‘The Woman Suffragist Who Was Not Militant’, Public Opinion (1929); George Young, ‘Letter to the Editor: Dame Millicent Fawcett’, The Times (1929); Lady Frances Balfour, Ne Obliviscaris Dinna Forget (1930); Ray Strachey, Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1931); ‘Women’s Tributes From our London Staff’, Manchester Guardian (n.d.)

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