And Lady Georgiana Russell's Dress Allowance In Lord Exnle's article on Vic torian Memories and Memoirs, recently contributed to the ''Quarterly Review," he quotes the list of favourite authors sent him by Queen Victoria in 1896. Among English writers her favourite dramatist and poets were Shakespeare, Walter Scott, Tennyson, and Adelaide Proctor. The hymns of Bonar and Faber were those to which she was specially attached. Her favourite novelists were all women—Jane Austen, Orarlotte Bronte, Mrs. Oliphant, Mre. Craik, George Eliot, and Edna Lyall. The list is old-fashioned. Its range is restricted and even seems to have been arrested.
In the Victorian age women seem to have spent comparatively little on their dress.- little earlier than 1855 Lady Georgiana Russell had her dress allowance raised to £100 a. year. As the daughter" of a Prime' Minister and Foreign, Minister she had to meet members. of the corps diplomatique, who were much more smartly dressed than most English women, the Austrians being particularly distinguished for beautiful clothes.
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