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Há 5 dias · Bulwer-Lytton had long suffered from a disease of the ear, and for the last two or three years of his life lived in Torquay nursing his health. After an operation to cure deafness, an abscess formed in the ear and burst; he endured intense pain for a week and died at 2 am on 18 January 1873, just short of his 70th birthday.
Há 5 dias · The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks From the Enlightenment to the Present, Oswyn Murray, Allen Lane, £30. Students of ancient history at Oxford in the 1970s and 1980s, as I was, attended Oswyn Murray’s lectures with pleasure and appreciation (another such was, somewhat later, the former PM Boris Johnson, to whom Murray sent a formal renunciation of friendship after Brexit).
Há 2 dias · BULWER-LYTTON, LORD EDWARD (1803 ... ROBERT PLUMER (1765-1846) “Tremaine; or, the Man of Refinement” (1825) is another tale of Regency high life with a ...
Há 2 dias · Early life Main article: Dickens family Charles Dickens's birthplace, 393 Commercial Road, Portsmouth 2 Ordnance Terrace, Chatham, Dickens's home 1817 – May 1821 Charles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812 at 1 Mile End Terrace (now 393 Commercial Road), Landport in Portsea Island (Portsmouth), Hampshire, the second of eight children of Elizabeth Dickens (née Barrow; 1789–1863) and John ...
Há 5 dias · Tenants included the novelist Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton (1803-73), who took the house for his wife in the 1830s and lived there himself in 1835-6, and nuns of the Sacred Heart from 1842 to 1850. In 1842 the grounds totalled 11½a.
Há 2 dias · The presentation of this commendation, along with the 2024 McIlvanney Prize (nominees still to be declared), “will take place in the ballroom of The Golden Lion Hotel at 5.45pm washed down with Bloody Scotland cocktails courtesy of Stirling Distillery. The winners will be interviewed on stage by TV and radio presenter Bryan Burnett after ...
Há 3 dias · Floor-slab: to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, 1646, with shield-of-arms, refaced and re-cut. Pavement: of stone and Purbeck marble squares, various dates. Miscellanea: fragments of moulded arches of former wall-arcades, 13th-century.
