A Blighted Life and Lady Lytton's public duel
Extracts from Lady Bulwer Lytton’s A Blighted Life attack Lord Lytton and high society, recounting domestic strife, attempted public exposure at Hertford in 1869, and a sensational episode ending with confinement, legal battles, and a life marred by scandal and money troubles. The narrative frames Queen Victoria and leading figures amid sharp critique and personal vendetta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lady Lytton
England
Lord Lytton
Empress
India
Ireland
Scotland
Principality of Wales
Orkney
Guernsey
Stark
Taiward Bulwer-Lytton
Liar
Limerick
English Ed Eye Man of Hope Mich Has Telephoto Sight
A reporter meets English Ed of Hope Barry county Michigan known as the Eye Man for a distinctive right eye. A sapling injury in youth bent the lens, giving him far seeing vision and telephoto accuracy to observe distant workers, verified by field glasses and a careful test from a jeweler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Battle Creek
Hope
Barry County
Mich
E. Guelph
Meyer
Coutts and Bartletts in a Boston to London tale
A London Truth discussion about Lady Burdett Coutts and Ashmead Bartlett explores American origins of Ellis Bartlett and the Boston cod fish trade. The piece traces Bartletts youth, schooling in New England, philanthropy, and the widow’s London plan, while recounting Duchess Harriet St Albans and Coutts family feuds and marriage intrigues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Burdett-Coutts
Ashmead-Hartlett
Atlantic
May Fair
Sam
Boston
America
Andrew Johnson
White House
St. Crispin
A. J
Garfield
Abe Lincoln
Bartlett
Charles D. Conzden
Ashmead- Hartett
Ashmead
Ellis Bartlett
New
New Plymouth
Massachusetts
New Bedford
Philadelphia
Robert Owen
New Lanark
Holy Land
Sala
Ashmead-Bartlett
Europe
N. P. Willis
Duchess of
St. Albans
Count d'Orsay
Harriet
Beauclere
Coutts
Daddy Burdett
The Do Nothing Man and the Mourning Rivalry
Robert Budge, a young Boston heir, abandons quiet wealth to pursue an extravagant dog-cart life. He obsesses over status, loses appetite and weight, and disappears after a telegram reveals a death in the family. Fitz James Eustis, inspired by Budge’s downfall, heads toward Colorado seeking renewal.
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New York Sun
Robert Budge
Boston
Fitz James Eustis
Fitz James
Robert
Clementina
Milildam Road
Pitt James Hustis
Albany
Colorado
Body Turns to Stone After Five Years Near Quincy
A Quincy farmer Kellison reports his mother who died years ago was buried in a limestone grave and later exhumed to reveal a body that had turned to solid stone weighing about a thousand pounds. The remains are stored at Prospect Cemetery while plans to donate them to a medical museum proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Enquirer
Stoney
Vyour
Quincy
Logan
Shelby
W. V. Speece
William Kellison
Kellison
Prospect Raveyard
Ohio
Titusville
Napoleon Rogers
Oil Creek
Napoleon
Lucinda Merkel
Merkel
Lucinda
Adolph Merkel
Pacific Slope
Chicago
Sub-Tre Sury
Bowse
Baltimore
West Indies
Dr. Tanner
Kaiser and Wife Said to Drift in Baden Meetings
London dispatch hints at strained imperial marriage as Emperor William II and Empress Augusta Victoria seldom see each other. Annual Baden gatherings mark the birthing of Augusta, with English papers praising domestic felicity amid royal marital tensions.
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Germany
Baden
London
Ruth
William
Ot Ererers
Austria
Russia
Italy
Europe
America
Hotsville man ties strawberry growth to mineral cement use
Jephtha A Wagener of Hotsville New York reports strawberry plants with berries at various growth stages and new stems replacing old ones. He credits ongoing experiments with a mineral cement for the accelerated growth observed over many years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jephtha A. Wagener
Hotsville
TWO WEEKS IN KERRY Rents and fines under Lansdowne rule
James Redpath criticizes Lord Lansdowne's estate practices in Kerry, detailing rent hikes by sectors and fines imposed on tenants. He alleges the “silent system” drives emigration, compares landlord cruelty to slavery, cites Cahirciveen and Kenmare cases, lime-kiln schemes, ejectments, and government loans used to pressure peasants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Redpath
New York Tribune
Lord Lansdowne
Kenmare
Cahircaveen
Archdeacon O'Sullivan
Trenen
Jerry Sullivan
Inchaimore
United States
Trench
Paddy Sullivan
Killah
Dan Connor
Droumanassig
Rouan Varish
Crass
Ord Lansdowne
Lansdowne
Kerry
America
Andersonville
Ireland
Lansdownes
Marquis
Charles Francis Adams
Marqus
Harry Reidy
Iowicz
Bouan
Darrel
Cabbciveen
Lord Landsdowne
Landsdowne
New York
Lord Lansdown
Canon Brosnan
Cahirciveen
Filemore
Cahireiveen
Dromore
House of Lords
Killarney
Glengarrif
Bay
Cabirelveen
Queen Pomare and the Tahiti Drama in Paris
A Paris letter to the London Pall Mall Gazette recounts Tahiti’s status under Republican France, the mediatized Tahitian king, and Pomare’s craze for the can can and polka. It notes 1848 disruptions, Pritchard indemnity, and the eventual oblivion of Tahiti’s tale amid annexation news.
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Paris
London
Pall Mall Gazette
Tahiti
Pritchard
Islands
Louis Philippe
Poimare
Queen Victoria
Admiral Dupetit- Thonars
Pomare
Crosette
Closerie
the Chaumiere
Balzac
Tomare
Victor Singe
Vomare
Theophile Gautier
Theodore de Banville
Armee
Gustave Nadaud
M. Emile de Girardin
National Assembly
Lomare
Pacific
Rea
Gamletta
Barbara Among the Barberries at the Wayside Way
A colorful fragment from the Brooklyn Eagle and others sketches Barbara among cherries and barberries with nimble fingers and willow-basket imagery. The piece blends flirtatious verse with brief prose vignettes about goings on and whimsical scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara
Barberry
Wright
Mrs Swisshelm's bold dining room stand abroad
A summer trip to Europe ends with Mrs Swisshelm scolding a table of German men who stare at her party of American girls. She drops her cutlery and uses a piercing gaze to shame the onlookers, provoking laughter and a sulky mutter from the diners.
Eve-like attire at Southsea ball shocks London readers
A London correspondent notes Mrs. Cornwallis West wore a daring black gauze gown at a ball hosted by the One Hundred and South Regiment at Southsea. Described as a low bodice with no sleeves and white lace accouterments, the outfit provokes comment on propriety and comfort amid cool rooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Cornwallis West
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Lady Bulwer-Lytton
Charles Dickens
Laura Deacon
Sergeant Talfourd
Lord Lyndhurst
Norton
Duchess of Kent
John Conroy
Flora Hastings
Prince Albert
Flora
Lytton
Dickens
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Laurence Sterne
Thackeray
Cornhill Magazine
Eton
Edward
Jane
Hertfordshire
Mortford
Horttora
Ruffan
Sui Disaut
Hertford
Herts
Sir Liar
Bedford
Dimsdale Arms
Sir Edward
Bulwer- Lytton
Edward Farle Bulwer-yston
Nert- Mercury
Volve
Oriesel
Grice
Mrs. C
Piccadilly
Lever
Andon
Brentford
Tauunton
Taunton
Peter
Peter Is Against Lady Lytton
Colonial Office
France
Paria
Pyrenees
Park Lane
Downing Street
Lucca
Sidward
Saya
Toulouse
Fletcher
Lady Lyton
Michigan
Ragu
Coutts-Bartlett
Mr. Bartlett
Elder Bartlett
George JV
David
Abishag
Holly Lodge
Perriene
Brighton
Cheltenham
Angela Burdett
Harriet St. Albans
Angela Burdett-Coutts
Walter Scott
Duke of
Wales
Witz James Eustis
Wonders OF Nature
Kerryman
Poor Law Union
Duchess of Marlborough
Castle Garden
Queen Pomare
Brooklyn Eagle
Marie Payton
Turkey
Free Press
Forenvon
Columbia Street
Fee
Detroit Free Press
Griswold Street
Muscogee
Adams
Creek Nation
Tulsa
Church
Arkansas
Fort With
Swisshelm
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