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Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life, by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey
Title: Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life
Author: Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey
Release Date: January 14, 2012 [eBook #38569]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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FIFTY-ONE YEARS OF VICTORIAN LIFE
All Rights Reserved
FIFTY-ONE YEARS
OF VICTORIAN LIFE
BY THE DOWAGER
COUNTESS OF JERSEY
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1922
DEDICATED
TO
MY CHILDREN
AND
GRANDCHILDREN
Printed in Great Britain by
Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.
| “What is this child of man that can conquer Time and that is braver than Love? Even Memory.” Lord Dunsany. |
| Though “a Sorrow’s Crown of Sorrow” Be “remembering happier things,” Present joy will shine the brighter If our morn a radiance flings. We perchance may thwart the future If we will not look before, And upon a past which pains us We may fasten Memory’s door. But we will not, cannot, banish Bygone pleasure from our side, Nor will doubt, beyond the storm-cloud, Shall be Light at Eventide. M. E. J. |
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I | |
| AN EARLY VICTORIAN CHILD | |
| The Duke of Wellington—Travelling in the Fifties—Governesses—“Mrs. Gailey”—Queen Victoria at Stoneleigh—A narrow escape—Life at Stoneleigh—Rectors and vicars—Theatricals | pp. 1-22 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| A VICTORIAN GIRL | |
| Mentone—Genoa—Trafalgar veterans—Lord Muncaster and Greek brigands—The Grosvenor family—Uncles and aunts—Confirmation—“Coming out”—Ireland—Killarney—The O’Donoghue—Myths and legends—The giant Benadadda | pp. 23-50 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| MARRIAGE | |
| Fanny Kemble—An old-fashioned Christmas—A pre-matrimonial party—Fonthill Abbey—Engagement—Married to Lord Jersey | pp. 51-64 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| EARLY MARRIED LIFE | |
| Lord Jersey’s mother—In London—Isola Bella, Cannes—Oxfordshire neighbours—Caversfield Church—Life at Middleton—Mr. Disraeli—Froude and Kingsley—James Russell Lowell—T. Hughes and J. R. Lowell—Mr. Gladstone on Immortality—Thought-reading—Tom Hughes and Rugby, Tennessee—Cardinal Newman | pp. 65-93 |
| CHAPTER V | |
| BERLIN AND THE JUBILEE OF 1887 | |
| Sarah Bernhardt—Death of Gilbert Leigh—In Italy, 1884—Court Ball in Berlin—The Crown Prince Frederick—Prince Bismarck—Conversation with Bismarck—Bismarck and Lord Salisbury—Thanksgiving Service—Trials of Court Officials—The Naval Review—Knowsley—Apotheosis of the Queen | pp. 94-121 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| GHOST STORIES AND TRAVELS IN GREECE | |
| Lord Halsbury’s ghost story—The ghostly reporter—A Jubilee sermon—Marathon—Miss Tricoupi—Nauplia—The Laurium Mines—Hadji Petros—Olympia—Zante | pp. 122-140 |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| VOYAGE TO INDIA—HYDERABAD | |
| Mr. Joseph Chamberlain—Departure for India—Colonel Olcott and Professor Max |