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Albert: Uncrowned King
London: John Murray, 1997
p. 396

....Christmas 1860 was celebrated at Windsor. With both the Prince of Wales and Prince Albert at home. George Byng, seventh Viscount Torrington...sent J. T. Delane of THE TIMES and…

Aubrey Beardsley: Imp of the Perverse
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976
p. 252

Christmas 1897 came to Menton, and Beardsley complained of the "horrid pseudo-Christmas gaiety spread over this un-french town"....A rare…

Beardsley: A Biography
New York: George Braziller, 1967
p. 14

Beardsley also designed the programs for some of [his school´s] entertainments. His most ambitious achievement was....for the Christmas musical The Pay of the Pied Piper, performed…

Bernard Shaw: 1914 - 1918
Journey to Heartbreak
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973

p. 81

At Christmas London shops were full, and Christmas trees were plentiful at Covent Garden. Stocks of food were high, and rationing not even in the…

Bernard Shaw: The Diaries 1885 - 1897. Volume I
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986

1887

p. 326

[Dec] 24....Go for a walk with Sidney Web.

Brought Mrs. Besant´s letters down to Fleet St., but she had gone. Called…

Bernard Shaw: The Diaries 1885 - 1897. Volume II
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986

p. 882

[Dec] 21 Go down to Kelmscott by the 13.25 train from Paddington.

....got to Paddington in good time. Miss Allen saw us off.…

Dear Young Friend:
The Letters of American Presidents to Children
Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2000

p. 115

Theodore Roosevelt to James A. Garfield

Jimmy Garfield, named for his assassinated grandfather, was the son of lawyer…

Disraeli:A Biography
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1993

p. 386

...on December 14, the Prince´s [Prince Albert] life ebbed away....In weeds and widow´s cap....Queen [Victoria] had been hurried off to Osborne, the funeral...at Windsor held without…

Four Rossettis:A Victorian Biography
New York: Weybright and Talley, 1977
p. 213

Recalling the Christmas of 1874, Dr. Hake described Gabriel as "much unstrung" silent on his walks with Watts and himself along the boulders fringing Selsey Bay.…

Lawrence of Arabia: The Literary Impulse
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975

p. 112

....[Lawrence´s] next venture in translation was self-aborted. Cape had offered him...Sturly by Pierre Custor....On Christmas Day, 1923, he…