Vol. IX (ff. 231). 1880-1908.includes:f. 1 Jane Alice Morris, daughter of Jane Morris: 'Record of the Secret Society': 1874.ff. 3, 36, 44, 46, 48, 50, 51, 54, 69 Prince Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin,; Russian revolutionary: Letters to Miss M. Morris... 1880-1908

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915

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Walter Crane was born in Liverpool on 15 Aug 1845, second son of the portrait painter Thomas Crane and his wife Marie née Kearsley. The family moved first to Torquay, and in 1857 to London. From 1859-62 Crane was apprenticed to the wood engraver William James Linton, although he studied painting at the same time. In 1862 his painting 'The Lady of Shalott' was accepted by the Royal Academy. By the mid-1860s, Crane was illustrating children's books including coloured picture books desi...

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English author and poet. His best-known works include the novels and short story collections The Jungle Book (1894), Just So Stories (1902), Puck of Pook's Hill (1906), and Kim (1901), as well as a number of poems such as "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), and "If-" (1910). Kipling was born in Bombay, India, into an artistic family: his father was a sculptor, pottery designer, and professor of architectural sculpture and tw...

Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905

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Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905) was a British actor-manager. Born Feb. 6, 1838, in Keinton Mandeville, Somerset, Eng., he died Oct. 13, 1905, in Bradford, Yorkshire. Irving's original name was John Henry Brodribb. He achieved early success and began to play leading roles throughout London, often with Ellen Terry. In 1878, he took over the Lyceum Theatre and hired Terry as the company's leading lady. This partnership lasted for 25 years and was reknowned throughout England and the United States. Bra...

Burne-Jones, Georgiana, 1840-1920

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Wife and biographer of Sir Edward Burne-Jones. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Joan Severn, 1889 May 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756940245 ...

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950

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Born in Dublin, Ireland, on July 26, 1856, George Bernard Shaw was the only son and third and youngest child of George Carr and Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly Shaw. Though descended from landed Irish gentry, Shaw's father was unable to sustain any more than a facade of gentility. Shaw's official education consisted of being tutored by an uncle and briefly attending Protestant and Catholic day schools. At fifteen Shaw began working as a bookkeeper in a land agent's office which required him t...

Morris, William, 1834-1896

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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935

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Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860-1935) was the leading public intellectual of the women’s movement in the early 20th century. Born into the prestigious Beecher family, she struggled through a lonely childhood and disastrous marriage, which caused a nervous breakdown. Her mental health returned once she separated from her husband; she later gave him custody of their young daughter, and he had a happy second marriage to one of her close friends. She moved to California, and threw herself int...

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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Epithet: writer of plays British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000765.0x00005f Irish writer, poet, and playwright. From the description of Collection, 1851-1957 (bulk 1877-1957). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122625016 Irish poet, dramatist and novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed :...

Jones, Henry Arthur, 1851-1929

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Henry Arthur Jones was the son of a tenant farmer, and worked in the drapery business for some twenty years after leaving school. He developed a passion for drama, and found success with The Silver King, a play he co-authored with Henry Herman, which gave him the financial security to become a full-time writer. A prolific author, he wrote many plays, chiefly melodramas, and had great success in England and America. His themes and influences were chiefly British, and he is considered a pioneer of...

Barrett, Wilson, actor-manager

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Epithet: actor-manager British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000697.0x000254 ...

Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928

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British actress. From the description of Dame Ellen Terry correspondence and calling card, 1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980587 Epithet: actress British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x000002 Dame Ellen Terry was a 19th century British actress, who for many years performed opposite Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre, London. She was made a Dame Grand Cross in 1925. Fro...

Burns, John Elliot, -1943, politician

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Epithet: politician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001030.0x0001e8 ...

Anderson, Sara, active 1880-1908, of Add MS 45346

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Epithet: of Add MS 45346 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000987.0x00014c ...

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909

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British poet. From the description of The descent into hell [manuscript poem], 1873 Jan. 9. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 41416044 From the description of Autograph quotation, [ca. 1890?]. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 315968127 Swinburne (1837-1909) was an English lyric poet, dramatist, and critic of the Victorian era. He was famous for the innovative versification of his poetry and infamous for his violent attacks on Victorian morality. ...

Aveling, Edward, active 1880-1908

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Jones, Edward Coley Burne-, Sir, 1833-1898, 1st Baronet, artist

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Epithet: artist Title: 1st Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x00038b ...

Buhlig, Richard, active 1880-1908, of Add MS 45346

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Epithet: of Add MS 45346 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000987.0x0002df ...

Deville, Gabriel, active 1880-1908, writer on political economy

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Epithet: writer on political economy British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000355.0x00024a ...

Dolmetsch, Eugène Arnold, musician and writer

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Epithet: musician and writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x000099 ...

Morris, Jane Alice, active 1877-1912, daughter of Jane Morris

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Epithet: daughter of Jane Morris British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x00037e ...

Murray, Webster, active 1880-1908, artist

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Epithet: artist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000985.0x0002fc ...

Fry, Roger Eliot

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Epithet: painter and critic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x0003af ...

Dereure, S., active 1880-1908, of 'Le Socialiste'

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Epithet: of 'Le Socialiste' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000355.0x00009f ...

Craig, Edward Thomas, active 1880-1908, leader of the Co-operative Movement

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Epithet: leader of the Co-operative Movement British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000680.0x000307 ...

Turner, Laurence Arthur, active 1880-1908, sculptor

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Epithet: sculptor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000438.0x00016a ...

Lafargue, Laura, active 1880-1908, Madame

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Epithet: Madame British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001191.0x000174 ...

Turner, Thackeray, active 1880-1924, Secretary, Soc. for the Protection of Ancient Buildings; architect

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Epithet: Secretary, Soc. for the Protection of Ancient Buildings; architect British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000438.0x0001a4 ...

Richmond, William Blake, Sir, KCB, RA

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Epithet: KCB, RA British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000352.0x000175 ...

Morris, Mary, 1862-1938

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daughter of William and Jane Morris Epithet: designer and craftswoman; called May British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001150.0x0003c8 ...

Bernstein, Eduard.

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Epithet: German socialist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000498.0x00025a Born in Berlin 1850, died in Berlin 1932; social democratic politician and theorist; joined the social democrats in 1872; lived in exile in Zurich and London 1878-1901; editor of Der Sozialdemokrat 1881-1890; proposed a revision of the Marxian theory in a series of articles entitled P̀robleme des Sozialismus', published in Die Neue Zeit 1...

Stevens (Benjamin Franklin) and Brown (Henry John) (American library agents; booksellers : active 1880-1908)

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Brooke, Stopford Augustus, Reverend author

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Epithet: Reverend author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x000348 ...

Shuttleworth, Henry Cary, active 1880-1908, Rector of St Nicholas Cole Abbey, London

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Epithet: Rector of St Nicholas Cole Abbey, London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001034.0x000139 ...

Benson, William Arthur Smith, active 1880-1908, architect and metal-work designer

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Epithet: architect and metal-work designer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001243.0x000222 ...

Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame, Unspecified, author

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Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000839.0x0001b0 Epithet: of Add MS 38653 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001094.0x000273 Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000300 Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graha...

Bettini, Pompeo, active 1880-1908, of Milan

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Epithet: of Milan British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001346.0x0002ef ...

De Morgan, William Frend, writer

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x0002df ...

Kravchinsky, Sergei Mikhailovich, alias 'Stepniak', Russian author

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Epithet: alias 'Stepniak', Russian author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000757.0x0003c3 ...

Wardle, George, active 1880-1913, manager of Morris and Co., etc

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Epithet: manager of Morris and Co., etc British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x000053 ...

Parsons, Lucy E. (Lucy Eldine), 1853-1942

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Epithet: wife of A R Parsons, the anarchist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001300.0x00004b ...

Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich

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Epithet: Prince Russian revolutionary British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x000365 ...

Garnett, Edward William, active 1880-1908, author

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000446.0x00006a ...

Fortescue, Adrian Knottesford

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Epithet: RC British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001345.0x00012e ...

Gronlund, Laurence, active 1880-1908, political writer

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Epithet: political writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001089.0x0000e1 ...

Scheu, Andreas

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Epithet: Austrian socialist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000834.0x000177 Born in Vienna 1844, died in Rapperswill, Switzerland 1927; model maker and gilder; one of the pioneers of the Austrian social democratic movement; member of the Association of Labour Education, Vienna, and the International Working Men's Association; editor of Volkswille Vienna, correspondent for Gleichheit and the Arbeiter-Zeitung Vie...

Hyndman, Henry Mayers

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Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur C888 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001244.0x00031a Epithet: socialist leader British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000696.0x000332 ...

Brown, Ford Madox

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Epithet: of Add MS 39168 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000987.0x0002b9 Epithet: artist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x000317 ...

Booth, Edwin, active 1880-1908, actor

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Epithet: actor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000302.0x000006 ...

Wardle, Thomas, Sir, active 1880-1908, of Leek

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Epithet: of Leek British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x000056 ...

Scott, William Bell

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Epithet: poet and painter British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000295.0x00020d ...

Morris, Jane, 1839-1914

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Epithet: embroiderer and artist's model, wife of William Morris British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x00013f Wife of William Morris. From the description of Autograph correspondence card signed : Lechlade, to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, 1913 Oct. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270612697 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Lechlade, to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, 1898 June 7...

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922

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Wilfred Scawen Blunt was an English author and explorer. He was born in Sussex, and served in the diplomatic corps in Europe and South America. He retired in 1872, married Anne Isabella Noel, Lord Byron's granddaughter, and they travelled through Europe and the Middle East, and went into partnership breeding Arabian horses. He vociferously opposed British imperialism, and was imprisoned in 1888 for supporting Irish Home Rule. He kept a diary for most of his adult life, and also wrote numerous tr...

De Farcy, Louis, active 1880-1908, of Angers

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Epithet: of Angers British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000213.0x00005b ...

Webster, Augusta, active 1880-1908, of Add MS 45346

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Epithet: of Add MS 45346 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001295.0x00001d ...

Webb, Philip Speakman, architect

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Epithet: architect British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x0001f1 ...

Price, Cormell, active 1853-1908

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Burrows, Herbert

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Epithet: socialist and theosophist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000974.0x0000d9 ...

Lane Fox, St George, active 1880-1908

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Webb, Sidney James, 1859-1957, Baron Passfield, social reformer and politician

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Epithet: social reformer and politician Title: Baron Passfield British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x0000b5 ...

Rossetti, Maria Francesca, active 1869-1908, author

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000298.0x000071 ...

Colajanni, Napoleone, active 1880-1908, Italian politician

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Epithet: Italian politician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000246.0x0000c3 ...

Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore, formerly Watts critic novelist and poet

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Epithet: formerly Watts critic novelist and poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x0001cb ...

Thomson, William

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Epithet: Common Clerk of Edinburgh British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001344.0x000202 Epithet: of Farnborough, county Southants British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001344.0x0001f8 Epithet: Archbishop of York; of Seal CXLIV British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001...

Howard, George J.

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Epithet: 9th Earl of Carlisle British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x0000a3 ...

Henry William Massingham

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Epithet: journalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001301.0x000288 Henry William Massingham was born in Norwich in 1860. At the age of seventeen, he joined the Eastern Daily Press as a reporter and, in 1888, moved to The Star, becoming editor for several months in 1890. In 1891, he was appointed editor of the Labour World and in the following year joined the Daily Chronicle, eventually editing the newspaper be...

Coit, Stanton, active 1880-1908, leader of the Ethical Movement

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Epithet: leader of the Ethical Movement British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000246.0x000065 ...