Lady Florence Caroline Dixie (née Douglas; 24 May 1855 – 7 November 1905) was a Scottish writer, war correspondent, and feminist. Her account of travelling...
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English traveler and writer Lady Florence Dixie, commemorated in the city's present-day Hotel Lady Florence Dixie. Dixie wrote the book Across Patagonia...
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twin sister "Florrie" (Lady Florence Douglas) and was heartbroken when she married a baronet, Sir Alexander Beaumont Churchill Dixie. In 1885, Lord James...
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Scottish Borderers. Dixie was the elder son of Sir Alexander Beaumont Churchill Dixie, 11th Baronet, and his wife, Lady Florence Dixie. His mother was well...
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team, one of the first women's football clubs, had as its patron Lady Florence Dixie, an aristocrat from Dumfries, and its first captain was Nettie Honeyball...
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Latin scholar Lady Florence Dixie (1855–1905) – wife of the 11th baronet; travel writer, war correspondent, and feminist Sir Wolstan Dixie of Market Bosworth...
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in 1883. From 1881, his cause had been taken up by, among others, Lady Florence Dixie, correspondent of The Morning Post, who wrote articles and books...
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Douglas and the twins Lord James Douglas and Lady Florence Dixie (who married Sir Alexander Beaumont Churchill Dixie, 11th Baronet). John Sholto Douglas was...
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Pingo, and Tyndall, belong to the Southern Patagonia Ice Field. Lady Florence Dixie, in her book published in 1880, gave one of the first descriptions...
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the paper appointed the first woman war correspondent when it sent Lady Florence Dixie to South Africa to cover the First Boer War. The paper was noted...
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British Ladies' Football Club (BLFC) was formed by Honeyball and Lady Florence Dixie in 1895, and was mainly composed of middle-class women. Honeyball...
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Dixie in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dixie is a feminine given name, nickname or stage name, and surname. It may refer to: Lady Florence Dixie (1855–1905)...
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Picture of Dorian Gray (in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated July) Lady Florence Dixie Aniwee, or, The Warrior Queen The Young Castaways, or, The Child...
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by Theodor Hertzka Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900 (1890) by Lady Florence Dixie – The female protagonist poses as a man, Hector l'Estrange, is elected...
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1881, the president of the British Ladies' Football Club in 1895, Lady Florence Dixie, the Edinburgh–Preston "World Championship" in 1937 and 1939, and...
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Women. Aberystwyth: Cambrian News Office. p. 5. Dixie, Florence (30 April 1892). "Lady Florence Dixie has addressed the following letter to Mr. Gladstone...
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Football Club (BLFC), of which Lady Florence Dixie, daughter of the 8th Marquess of Queensberry, was president. The Lady Footballers and the British Ladies...
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England, now known as the Bosworth Hall Hotel. It was the country seat of the Dixie family (baronets of Bosworth) for nearly three hundred years. Since the...
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for Florence or Flora and may refer to: Florrie Burke (1918–1995), Irish footballer Florrie R. Burke, human rights advocate Lady Florence Dixie (1855–1905)...
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French citizens who had taken advantage of a law of amnesty. Died: Lady Florence Dixie, 50, Scottish book author, feminist and war correspondent, died of...
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the Matterhorn. Reverend Lord Archibald Edward Douglas (1850–1938). Lady Florence Caroline Douglas (1855–1905) (twin), war correspondent, travel writer...
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Alderton Betty Balfour Florence Balgarnie Anna Barlow Annie Besant Vera Brittain Elizabeth Cadbury Margery Corbett Ashby Lady Florence Dixie Millicent Fawcett...
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opposition from activists concerned about animal welfare. In 1892, Lady Florence Dixie criticised hare coursing as an "aggravated form of torture" and the...
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Lord James Douglas (d. 1891) and Lady Florence Douglas (1855–1905), who married Sir Alexander Beaumont Churchill Dixie, 11th Baronet. He was an uncle of...
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Francis Douglas (1847–1865) Lord Archibald Edward Douglas (1850–1938) Lady Florence Dixie (1855–1905) Henry Alexander Douglas (1781–1837) Henry Alexander Douglas...
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Religion of Woman: an Historical Study, Watts & Co., introduction by Lady Florence Dixie Evolution: A General Sketch From Nebula to Man. New York: Frederick...
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comic poet Des Dillon (living), novelist, poet and screenwriter Lady Florence Dixie (1855–1905), feminist, travel writer and novelist James Main Dixon...
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the Marquesses of Queensberry. Holiday apartments at Agnes Hill. Lady Florence Dixie (1855-1905), travel writer, war correspondent, and feminist, a daughter...
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authors included Andrew Lang, Egyptologist W. M. Flinders Petrie, Lady Florence Dixie (feminist sister of the infamous Marquess of Queensberry), Max O'Rell...
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: Syracuse University Press, 1995. Chapter 3 analyzes Zaisheng yuan and compares it with Lady Florence Dixie's Gloriana; or, The Revolution of 1900....
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