A further boost to Florence's fortune came with the event of the Crimean War from 1853-1856. Parents clamoured to give their children eventful names. Battles led to several babies being named Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, and Sebastopol and names notable figures were also used. Thanks to her p...
So, my dilemma is that I absolutely love the Victorian/Edwardian style floral names that the “sisters” all had, but I’d prefer to not reuse any more of their names, after using Hortense/Hortensia. My other grandmother (from my mother’s side) was named Marta, and I was very close ...
Bradley came to Hong Kong in 1977 to visit his then girlfriend, now wife, Elizabeth. The couple have two children, who are both permanent residents of Hong Kong, and one of whom was born in Hong Kong. Bradley himself was also a permanent resident of the territory, before renouncing it ...
As death was the most useful thing to happen to John F. Kennedy’s career as the best president the US never had, so Isabella Beeton’s early demise helped to transform her book from a, totheguide to respectable living for the middle classes.Samuel Beetonwas the book’s publisher, and ...
An anonymous poem, 'The Runaway', quoted by the Jamaican planter, Matthew Lewis, is perhaps revealing here: Peter was a black boy; Peter, him pull foot one day; Buckra girl, him Peter's joy; Lilly white girl entice him away. Fye, Miss Sally, fye on you! Poor Blacky Peter why ...
“An indelible performance”). Jennings’ comments on Olivia Cowley’s performance is particularly telling: “Realising that Albrecht has broken the village girl’s heart, Cowley’s Bathilde appears not so much wounded as faintly nauseated”. For Wright it is also essential that Giselle commits ...
William Bailey died on July 2, 1936, at the age of seventy. He was survived by his wife, Jean, and a daughter, Jean Grace Kathleen (7). Fittingly for a girl whose father had run one of Vancouver’s earliest bookstores, Jean Grace’s university yearbook entry said she could be found...
Battles were also used. The Second Boer War in 1899 - 1902 throws up several ‘battle baby names’ includingBloemfontein, Colenso, Johannesburg, Ladysmith, Mafeking, Pretoria,TalanaandTugela.One baby, born in 1900, was calledMagersfontein Paardebergafter two such battles, while a little girl, ...