Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 89
May 22, 2016
Countess Maud
History... the interesting bits!
The Clifford coat of arms
There are many women in history of whom we only have snippets of information. However, those snippets prove to be fascinating and demonstrate how closely the lives of noble houses were tied together – and how they were torn apart. Maud Clifford is one such lady.
Born about 1389 at Brough Castle in Westmoreland, Maud (or Matilda) was the daughter of Thomas Clifford, 6th Baron Clifford, and his wife Elizabeth de Ros. Maud’s brother,...
May 20, 2016
The Rock Cones Of Urgup, Cappadocia, Turkey
Latitude 38.660046 & Longitude 34.853611. On the Anatolian Plain in the Zelve region ofCappadocia, some 140 miles south-east of the capital city Ankara and2miles north-east of Goreme, stand …
Source: The Rock Cones Of Urgup, Cappadocia, Turkey
The Collingham Saxon Crosses, West Yorkshire
OS grid reference: SE 3900 4609. At the north-east side of Collingham village, west York-shire, stands the ancient parish church of St Oswald, a building dating back to pre-Conquest times.The church houses two Anglo-Saxon cross-shafts and alsoa few other interesting antiquities: there is an ancientstone coffin lid, a cresset stone, a stone with a consecration cross and some 17th century grave slabs.St Oswald’sparish church is located onChurch Lane just to the nort...
May 18, 2016
Whats in an Alias: Civil War Widowhood, Remembrance & Identity in the Words of an “Old Irishwoman”
Irish in the American Civil War
On 6th September 1864, Private Kieran Fitzpatrick of the 11th Connecticut Infantry lost his battle for life at the 18th Corps Hospital in Point of Rocks, Virginia. Hiswife Elizabeth sought a widow’s pension based on his service;a lack of documentation meant it would be 1869 before she received it. Then, 35-years after her husband’s death, a decision Kieran had made upon his enlistment in 1862threatened his elderly widow’s liberty. The major investigation into...
May 17, 2016
Homage to Salvador Dali | Compagnia Finzi Pasca & “La Verità” at BAM, May 4-7, 2016….
Beatriz-Sayad & Rolando Tarquini in Daniele Finzi Pasca’s “La Verità” at BAM. Photo: Max-Gordon
In 1944 Salvador Dali collaborated with Leonide Massine, originally from Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, on the ballet “Mad Tristan.”. It was inspired by Wagner’s 1865 opera “Tristan and Isolde.” For the first act Dali created a twenty-seven by forty-five feet backdrop that in 2009 was found in a box stored at the Metropolitan Opera. It is Dali at his best with what, I have rea...
Katherine Parr: Why the Queen is implicated with Seymour and His misconduct with the Lady Elizabeth
From Rebecca Larson’s article at TudorDynasty: Why Queen Elizabeth I Never Married
“Elizabeth also experienced an improper male relationship while she was living with her step-mother Katherine Parr and her new husband Thomas Seymour. Thomas would flirt with Elizabeth in an improper fashion – and to thwart him from continuing these escapades Katherine would participate (to keep a watchful eye) by holding down young Elizabeth while Thomas tickled her. Inevitably, Katherine found t...
Regency Personalities Series-James Templer (Canal Builder)
Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of themany period notables.
James Templer (Canal Builder)
1748-1813
James II Templer
James Templer was the eldest son and heir of James I Templer, of Stover House, Teigngrace, Devon, a self-made magnate who had made his fortune building dockyards.
Templer was a Master in the Crown Office at London. He inherited the Stover estate in 1782, and bega...
May 16, 2016
Dame Stephanie Shirley
Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley is one of the most remarkable living sheroes of our time, having created a multibillion dollar business that also established a new way to bring women into the workforce.
Although Shirley made her fame and fortune in England, she began her life in the industrial city of Dortmund, Germany in 1933 as Vera Buchthal, the daughter of a Jewish judge and a non-Jewish Viennese mother. Her father lost his position as the Nazi’s began their systematic persecution of Jew...
Heraldry Windows at Chawton House Library ~ Part I: The Great Gallery
Dear Readers: Today I am posting in response to a question on Tony Grant’s post about visiting the Emma exhibitionat Chawton House Library a few weeks ago. One of Tony’s pictures at the end of the post was of stained glass windows at the Library, and “Lady L” inquired about them. Tony had not seen anything about the various windows and portraits, but he confessed to be solely focused on Emma to really pay close attention. I have since discovered that all the heraldic w...
Martha Washington: The White House Portrait
The huge portrait of Martha Washington that balances the famous Gilbert Stuart painting of her husband, was painted more than seventy five years after her death.
The full-length portrait of Martha Washington that hangs in the White House East Room.
White House Portraits
Before photography had advanced sufficiently to achieve artistic popularity, a portrait was the only way a person’s likeness could be preserved for posterity. The accuracy of that likeness, of cour...
