Letters to the Irish nationalist leader John Dillon, including several sent during his imprisonment in Galway Gaol in 1891. Venturi offers support, political advice, and explanations of her own political and social convictions. Venturi disagreed stron...
Description:
Emilie Venturi (1820?-1893) was the intimate friend, political disciple, and literary executrix of Giuseppe Mazzini. Her first marriage ended in divorce; her second, to the Risorgimento volunteer Carlo Venturi, with his death in 1866. She was prominme...
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland--History--1837-1901 and Italy--History--1849-1870
Subject (Name):
Ashurst, W. H. (William Henry), 1792-1855, Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930, Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Influence, Dillon, John, 1851-1927, Mazzini, Giuseppe, 1805-1872, Parnell, Charles Stewart, 1846-1891, Venturi, Emilie Ashurst, -1893, and Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
Subject (Topic):
Anti-clericalism--England, Anti-clericalism--Italy, Home rule--Ireland, Irish question, Nationalism--Ireland, Nationalism--Italy, Nationalities, Principle of, Women social reformers--Great Britain--19th century, and Women's rights--Great Britain--19th century
