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Florence Dixie
Also recorded as Florence Caroline Dixie · Florence Douglas · Lady Florence Caroline Dixie · Lady Florence Douglas
Florence Dixie
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- Full name
- Florence Caroline Douglas.
- Born
- 1855. · Cummertrees.
- Died
- 1905.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Occupation
- writer, novelist, journalist and women's rights activist.
- Languages
- English.
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The recorded working language is English. Work by Florence Dixie is recorded in the collections of Memoria Chilena.
Portrait of Florence Dixie. The Attack on Lady Florence Dixie near Windsor. Illustration for The Graphic, 24 March 1883.
The Graphic, March 24, 1883, p. 304
Lady Florence Dixie in Fifty years of food reform: a history of the vegetarian movement in England by Charles W. Forward (1898). Dixie was Vice President of the London Vegetarian Association
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- 2.G. E. Cokayne et al., eds., The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new edition, 13 volumes in 14 (1910–1959; new edition, 2000), volume X, page 694
- 3.Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles. Armorial families : a complete peerage, baronetage, and knightage, and a directory of some gentlemen of coat-armour, and being the first attempt to show which arms in use at the moment are borne by legal authority. T.C. & E.C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works. 307–308. 1895.
- 4.Stevenson, Catherine Barnes. Victorian women travel writers in Africa. Twayne. 41. 1982. 9780805768350.
- 5.Walsh, William Shepard. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the Life of Men and Animals, Odd Statistics, Extraordinary Phenomena, and Out of . Facts Concerning the Wonderlands of the Earth. J.B. Lippincott. 739. 1913.
- 6.Crawford, Bryan. Letters my grandfather wrote me : family origins. Authorhouse. 273. 2011. 978-1456788520.
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- 8.Stratmann, Linda. The Marquess of Queensberry : Wilde's nemesis. Yale University Press. 69–77. 2013. 978-0300173802.
- 9.Douglas, Gertrude. Lady Gertrude Douglas on Convent Life. The Darling Downs Gazette and General Advertiser (Toowoomba, Qld.). 4. 2 July 1870.
- 10.Middleton, Dorothy, "Dixie [née Douglas], Florence Caroline, Lady Dixie (1855–1905)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- 11.Dixie, Florence. The songs of a child, and other poems, by "Darling". Leadenhall Press. 1901.
- 12.Nelsson, Richard. The first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. The Guardian. 14 July 2015.
- 13.Fleming, Fergus. Cliffhanger at the top of the world. The Guardian. 3 November 2000.
- 14.Mark, Jenkins. How the Matterhorn Created Modern Mountaineering 150 Years Ago. National Geographic. 14 July 2015.
- 15.Dean & Son. Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage. 140. 1878.
- 16.Theakstone, John, Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works by Women Travellers, 1837–1910 (dated Summer 2003) online at victorianresearch.org (accessed 8 March 2008)
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- 18.Bisset, Thom Adam. The Upper Ten Thousand, For 1876: A Biographical Handbook Of All The Titled And Official Classes Of The Kingdom, With Their Addresses. Kelly and Company. 129. 1876.
- 19.Profile, staleyandco.com; accessed 11 March 2008.
- 20.Cordery, Stacy A. Juliette Gordon Low : the remarkable founder of the Girl Scouts. Penguin Books. 2013. 978-0143122890.
- 21.Foss, Peter J., The History of Market Bosworth (Wymondham, 1983) p. 178
- 22.Addison, Henry Robert. Who's who. A. & C. Black. 55. II. 373–374. 1903.
- 23.Lady Florence Douglas. The Douglas Archives.
- 24.Szurmuk, Monica. Women in Argentina. University Press of Florida. 67–77. 2001. 978-0813018898.
- 25.Martin, Claire Emilie. "Shall I Ever Cross the Moors Again?": Lady Florence Dixie's Across Patagonia (1880). Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas. 45. 57–63. 2012. 10.1080/08905762.2012.670458.
- 26.Penaloza, Fernanda. A Sublime Journey to the Barren Plains: Lady Florence Dixie's Across Patagonia (1880). Limina. 10. 86. 2004.
- 27.Anderson, Monica. Women and the Politics of Travel, 1870–1914. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 121. 2006. 9781611473261.
- 28.McKenzie, Precious. The right sort of woman : victorian travel writers and the fitness of an empire. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2012. 978-1-4438-3637-1.
- 29.Darwin Correspondence Database, accessed Fri 8 March 2013
- 30.Rutherford, H. W., 1908. Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge. Compiled by H. W. Rutherford, of the University Library; with an Introduction by Francis Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cambridge University Press.
- 31.Hardman, Philippa. Lady Florence Dixie: a woman who had it all?. Darwin and Gender: The Blog.
- 32.Hotel Lady Florence Dixie.
- 33.Shaw, John F. The Young Castaways. By Lady Florence Dixie. The Spectator. 23. 23 November 1889.
- 34.Mangasarian, Mangasar Mugurditch. Lady Florence Douglas Dixie. Liberal Review. 2. 1. 336–342. 1905.
- 35.Lady Florence Caroline Douglas Dixie in the Columbia Encyclopedia (sixth edition) online (accessed 8 March 2008)
- 36.Dixie, Florence. Woman's position, and the objects of the Women's Franchise League [microform]; lecture . delivered in the Christian Institute, Glasgow on 21st April 1891. Leng. 21 April 1891.
- 37.Heilmann, Ann, Wilde's New Women: the New Woman on Wilde in Uwe Böker, Richard Corballis, Julie A. Hibbard, The Importance of Reinventing Oscar: Versions of Wilde During the Last 100 Years (Rodopi, 2002) pp. 135–147, in particular p. 139
- 38.Wu, Qingyun. Female rule in Chinese and English literary utopias. Syracuse Univ. Press. 54–57. 1995. 978-0815626237.
- 39.Novels of the Week. The Athenaeum. 3264. 637–638. 17 May 1890.
- 40.Walker, Julia M. The Elizabeth icon, 1603–2003. Palgrave Macmillan. 159–163. 2003. 978-0230288836.
- 41.Gates, Barbara T. (ed.), In Nature's Name: An Anthology of Women's Writing and Illustration, 1780–1930 (University of Chicago Press, 2002) pages 61–66 online at books.google.co.uk (accessed 9 March 2008)
- 42.Dixie, Florence. Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900. Henry and Co. 129–130. 1890.
- 43.Dixie, Florence. Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900. Henry and Co. 1890.
- 44.Richard William Cox, Dave Russell, Wray Vamplew, Encyclopedia of British Football (London, Routledge, 2002) page 325 online at books.google.co.uk (accessed 9 March 2008)
- 45.Lee, James F. The lady footballers : struggling to play in Victorian Britain. Routledge. 27–30. 2008. 978-0415426091.
- 46.Gilbey, Tresham. Our Van. Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes. 31. 238. 1878.
- 47.Dixie, Florence. Across Patagonia. Richard Bentley and Son. 1880.
- 48.Forward, Charles W. Fifty Years of Food Reform: A History of the Vegetarian Movement in England. The Ideal Publishing Union. 125. 1898.
- 49.Lady Florence Caroline Dixie. National Portrait Gallery.
- 50.A Dastardly Irish Crime An attempt to assassinate Lady Florence Dixie. She is waylaid by two men disguised in women's clothes – Her life saved by a St. Bernard dog. New York Times. 1. 19 March 1883.
- 51.Lady Florence Dixie's own story. From the Pall Mall Gazette of 19 March. New York Times. 30 March 1883.
- 52.J.H. Richards. The Week: New York, Thursday, April 3, 1883. The Nation. 36. 287. 1883.
- 53.Occasional Notes. The West Australian (Perth, WA). 15 May 1883.
- 54.Grave English Topics Lady Florence Dixie, the Irish and Mr. Parnell. From the Pall Mall Gazette of 19 March. New York Times. 30 March 1883.
- 55.LAW AND POLICE—REPORTED ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE LADY FLORENCE DIXIE HC Deb 19 March 1883 vol 277 c814
- 56.LAW AND POLICE—REPORTED ATTACK ON LADY FLORENCE DIXIE HC Deb 20 March 1883 vol 277 cc939-40
- 57.LAW AND POLICE—REPORTED ATTACK ON LADY FLORENCE DIXIE Hansard, HC Deb 29 March 1883 vol 277 cc993-4
- 58.Lady Florence Dixie Dead. Author, Champion of Woman's Rights, and War Correspondent. New York Times. 9. 8 November 1905.
- 59.Vanity Fair Ladies, vanity-fair-prints-company.com; accessed 30 March 2008.
- 60.Anderson, Monica, Women and the Politics of Travel, 1870–1914 page 266 online at books.google.co.uk] (accessed 8 March 2008)
- 61.AfricaBib (accessed 21 May 2013)
- 62.Anderson, Monica, Women and the Politics of Travel, 1870–1914, p. 119 et seq.
- 63.26671. 5642. 15 October 1895.
- 64.29111. 2953. 23 March 1915.
- 65.Dixie, Sir (George) Douglas, 12th Bt., in Who Was Who 1941–1950(London, A. & C. Black, 1980 reprint; )
- 66.Dixie, Sir (Alexander Archibald Douglas) Wolstan, in Who Was Who 1971–1980 (London, A. & C. Black, 1989 reprint, )
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