Fifty-One Years of Victorian 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....

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 Salisb...

Mr. Joseph Chamberlain--Departure for India--Colonel Olcott and Professor Max Müller--Sir Samuel Baker-- Mahableshwar--H.H. the Aga Khan--Races at Hyderabad-- H.H. the Nizam of...

Brahmin philosophers--Faith of educated Hindus-- Theosophists at Adyar--The Ranees of Travancore--The Princesses of Tanjore--"The Heart of Montrose"--The Palace of Madura--Rous...

The Relief of Lucknow--View from the Kotab Minar-- Sekundra and Futtehpore Sekree--The legend of Krishna-- The Jains--The Maharajah of Bhownuggar--Baroda--English as Lingua Fran...

Dinner at Windsor--Voyage up the Nile--Choucry Pasha, Princess Nazli--The Pigmies--Inn of the Good Samaritan-- The Holy City--Balbec--Damascus, Lady Ellenborough-- Oriental meth...

Tongan ladies--Arrival at Apia--German plantations--R. L. Stevenson--King Malietoa--The Enchanted Forest--King Mataafa--The Kava Ceremony--A native dance-- Missionaries--Samoan...

The well-forged link of Empire--Columbus discovers America--The Mayor cuts his hair--The pageant "America"-- Back at Osterley--The dahabyah _Herodotus_--Escape of Slatin Pasha--...

I was born at Stoneleigh Abbey on October 29th, 1849. My father has told me that immediately afterwards--I suppose next day--I was held up at the window for the members of the N...

The Christmas festivities of 1862 had to be suspended, as my mother's health again obliged my father to take her to the South of France. This time I was their sole companion, th...

Next year--1870--all thoughts were to a large extent taken up with the Franco-German War. It does not seem to me that we took violent sides in the struggle. Naturally we were qu...

It is more difficult to write at all consecutively of my married life than of my girlhood, as I have less by which I can date its episodes and more years to traverse--but I must...

I find it difficult to recall all our foreign travels. In 1876 I paid--with my husband--my first visit to Switzerland, and three years later we went again--this time making the...

To go a little back in recollections of the eighties one of our friends was Lord Cairns, Lord Chancellor in 1868 and again from 1874 till, I believe, his death. Once when I was...

I must go back a little in these mixed memories to record our early acquaintance with Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, who afterwards became one of our great friends. I believe that I fi...

From Hyderabad we went to Madras to fulfil our promise of paying a visit to Mr. Bourke, who had now become Lord Connemara. We stayed there for over three weeks and became much i...

From Benares we went to Lucknow, where we had the good fortune to meet Sir Frederick (afterwards Lord) Roberts, and Lady Roberts, who were exceedingly kind to us during our stay...

After our return to London in the spring I was greatly surprised when on meeting Sir Henry Ponsonby one day at a party he desired me to send my article on India to the Queen. He...

Mr. Hare's account of our August Party in 1890 mentions the reason of its being the last for some time. My husband had been already offered the Governorship of Bombay and would...

Lady Galloway came out to us towards the end of 1891, and in January she accompanied us on one of our amusing expeditions. This time it was about three days' tour through a hill...

Not long after our return from New Caledonia I set sail again, this time to take advantage of an invitation from the Britannic Land Commissioner to stay with him at his house in...

Early in 1893 my husband was obliged to resign his Governorship, as our Welsh agent had died and there were many urgent calls for his presence in England. The people of New Sout...

Our sojourn in Japan was all too short, and we sailed from Yokohama in a ship of the Empress Line on May 12. Capturing a spare day at 170° longitude, we reached Vancouver on the...

I realise that in the foregoing pages I have dwelt more on foreign lands than on our own country. This only means that they offered more novelty, not that England was less inter...