• "The Duchess and the Jeweller" (1938) is a short story by Virginia Woolf. Woolf, being an advocate of addressing the "stream of consciousness," shows...
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    rule, "The Duchess and the Jeweller" (originally titled "The Duchess and the Jew") has been considered antisemitic. Some believe that Woolf and her husband...
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  • "The Shooting Party" "Lappin and Lappinova" "Solid Objects" "The Lady in the Looking-Glass" "The Duchess and the Jeweller" The final six were unpublished...
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    English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolf (née Stephen). Vanessa Stephen was the elder daughter...
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    member of the Bloomsbury Group, an author and psychoanalyst, and the younger brother of Thoby Stephen, Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. He and his wife...
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    Leonard Woolf (category Members of the Fabian Society)
    theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant. He was married to author Virginia Woolf. As a member of the Labour Party and the Fabian Society, Woolf was...
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    Dreadnought hoax (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    sympathetic and encouraging yet unafraid to take him on". Stephen was the son of Leslie, the writer and critic, and Julia, the philanthropist and Pre-Raphaelite...
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    Thoby Stephen (category Deaths from typhoid fever in the United Kingdom)
    November 1906), known as the Goth, was the brother of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, both prominent members of the Bloomsbury Group, and of Adrian Stephen...
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  • Dowager Duchess of Westminster (née Phillips; born 8 May 1959), is a British aristocrat, philanthropist and winemaker. She is the widow of the 6th Duke...
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  • works by the English novelist and essayist Virginia Woolf. The Voyage Out (1915) Night and Day (1919) Jacob's Room (1922) Mrs Dalloway (1925) To the Lighthouse...
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    Alexander II of Russia and Marie of Hesse and by Rhine; she was Duchess of Edinburgh and later Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as the wife of Alfred, Duke...
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    successively Duchess of York, Duchess of Cornwall, and Princess of Wales. As queen consort from 1910, Mary supported her husband through the First World...
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    Leslie Stephen (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    historian, biographer, mountaineer, and an early humanist activist. He was also the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. Sir Leslie Stephen came...
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  • jeweller based in London. It was founded by British jeweller Laurence Graff in 1960. A vertically integrated company, Graff operations comprise the design...
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    Perchin under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1902. The Duchess of Marlborough Egg is the only large Fabergé egg to have been...
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    Leane wins Harper's Bazaar jewellery award," Professional Jeweller, 13 February 2013. "And the Winners Are...!" Walpole, 19 November 2013. "Shaun Leane...
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    Julia Stephen (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    while the younger, Lady Adeline Marie (1852–1920) became the Duchess of Bedford. Julia and her mother were frequent guests at Eastnor Castle, the home...
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  • Arts and Crafts jeweller. He was born on 2 September 1892 in Dudley, near Birmingham. At the age of five he contracted diphtheria and became deaf. The family...
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    (born Duchess Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie in Bavaria; 24 December 1837 – 10 September 1898), nicknamed Sisi or Sissi, was Empress of Austria and Queen of...
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    Marie-Étienne Nitot (category French jewellers)
    Paris – 9 September 1809) was a French jeweller, the official jeweller to the Emperor Napoleon, and the founder of the House of Chaumet. Nitot's family was...
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    jewellery only worn by the Princess and not owned. The Collingwood jewellers were the jewellers favoured by the Spencer family and thus loaned Lady Diana...
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    in design and set with brilliant and baguette cut diamonds. King Faisal bought the necklace, made by the American jeweller Harry Winston, and presented...
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  • Monica Vinader (category Women jewellers)
    Gabriela Vinader as co-founder. With demand and sales growing, the company won Retail Jewellers' "Jewellery Brand of the Year" award two years after it was founded...
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    The Lilies of the Valley egg is a jewelled Fabergé egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1898 by Fabergé ateliers...
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    Jeanne Toussaint (category Belgian jewellers)
    Jeanne Toussaint (1887–1976) was a Belgian-born French jeweller and fashion designer who exerted considerable influence on jewellery design after Louis...
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  • physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, chemists, etc. The Crown Jeweller Her Majesty's Clockmaker and Keeper and Dresser of His Majesty's Clocks in Scotland –...
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    British luxury jeweller famed for designing, crafting and selling fine jewellery and watches. It was founded in 1962, by David Morris and remains family...
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  • Nicholson, Coleby. "CAD/CAM'S MOVERS & SHAKERS". Jeweller Magazine. Retrieved 15 August 2014. "Palloys – the power of three". Jewellery World. 21 August 2009...
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    Pahlavi; Eva Perón; Elizabeth Taylor; the Duchess of Windsor; Queen Nazli of Egypt; Queen Camilla; Gwyneth Paltrow; and Reese Witherspoon. Top-ranked tennis...
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    House of Bolin (category Swedish jewellers)
    family. The firm exists today as Jewellers and Silversmiths to HM the King of Sweden. The firm's archives once dated as far back as 1796, and its founder...
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