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SPORTS WOMAN'S PAGE

... was such a favourite in society here. Lord Alington was not well enough to go over to Ireland to see her. Lord Chelsea went, but Lady Chelsea was unable to undertake the journey. The accounts are not encouraging hut after all site is young and where youth ...

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... Collins, and Smollett, the last of whom attracted to his Chelsea home Johnson, Goldsmith, Sterne, Garrick, Wilkes, and John Hunter. Later, long after Woodfall's day was done, there came to Chelsea, as everyone knows, de Quincey and Carlyle. The Kingsleys ...

Published: Wednesday 14 December 1898
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6353 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THEATRICAL GOSSIP

... and she is well supported. There were so many fine qualities in Mrs. Oscar Beringer's play A Bit of Old Chelsea, in which, as the innocent flower-girl, Miss Annie Hughes acted so delightfully at the Court Theatre, that I have been looking forward with ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1581 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

OUR ILLUSTRATIONS: MISS ANNIE HUGHES

... happiest of all is certainly provided in Miss Hughes's embodiment of the poor rough flower girl in Mrs. Oscar Beringer's bold and clever little play A Bit of Old Chelsea. But tor tne actress s unalleeted good faith in the rendering of this unhappy waif ...

OUR ILLUSTRATIONS

... in any way pressed. Our sketch shows the capsize of Daphne; R.C.C. canoes cruising near the line the start of the Thames Sailing Club yachts, II. B. W. THE SURREY BICYCLE CLUB AT BENNINGTON OVAL. The illustration shows the scene in the enclosure close ...

SMALL TALK

... a donkey show. The grounds of Lambeth Palace were crowded on Monday week with a distinguished company of costers and costeresses, not to mention the household baby, all cheerily assembled to commemo rate a great occasion the first donkey show ever held ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4393 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... if somewhat precarious, livelihood by the sale of his wares or the manifestation of the mysteries appertaining to his peep-show, and he looks upon himself as a respectable and law-abiding member of the community. At the present time he has good cause ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3378 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... among those who came to listen to Faure's music, and nothing but Faure's music, were Mrs. Ronalds Mrs. Maddison, in a pretty flowered silk, with pearls in a rope round her neck, and a diamond dagger in her hair; Mrs. George Batten, dressed in black, with ...

Published: Wednesday 13 May 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5635 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... jury of eleven, taken in rotation from a body of delegates chosen by the great families for this purpose. The illustration shows the assembled delegates at the house of Mr. Jamshed Tata, with the Hon. Mr. Justice Jardine, of the High Court of Bombay, in ...

Published: Wednesday 25 December 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5986 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... Britain, and palms, flowers, and hothouse plants unrivalled throughout the kingdom. Naturally, in such a home of flowers, a floral fete was held to be an appropriate feature in the Jubilee celebra tions. Some idea of the splendour of the show may be got from ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3962 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... Gregory Strand. Full many a flower, observed the poet Gray, is bom to blusb unseen. I am sure that the poet did not intend to limit the scope of that remark to flowers of the field or forest. The words may be applied to the flowers of journalism that open ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 9249 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

The Diamond Jubilee

... often travelled, but it has been much improved and made very smart. Paddington Station had put on Jubilee attire of flags, flowers and crimson carpeting, and the first proceeding was for the Queen to receive an address from the Paddington Vestry, a host ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1897
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2977 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs