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Emma Alice Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (née Tennant; 2 February 1864 – 28 July 1945), known as Margot Asquith, was a British socialite and author.. She was married to British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith from 1894 to his death in 1
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Asquith, who enjoyed writing letters to women in high society, began his correspondence with Venetia in 1910. However, Venetia was just one of several women who received Asquith's letters until 1912, when she went on a trip to Sicily with Asquith, Violet and Edwin Montagu, a Liberal MP who was one of Asquith's protégés. It seems that on this ...
See also B Charles Babbage (1791–1871), polymath Gervase Babington (1549/1550–1610), theologian and bishop David Baddiel (born 1964), novelist and comedian Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941), writer and army officer, Scouting for Boys Edmund Backhouse (1873–1944), orientalist and autobiographer Anne Bacon (c. 1528–1610), translator and correspondent Francis Bacon (1561–1626), essayist ...
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Asquith (left) with his sister Emily and elder brother William, c. 1857. Asquith was born in Morley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the younger son of Joseph Dixon Asquith (1825–1860) and his wife Emily, née Willans (1828–1888). The couple also had three daughters, of whom only one survived infancy.
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Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801 is a scholarly monograph by Emma Donoghue, which collects written descriptions of lesbian relationships in early modern Britain. [1] It was first published in the UK 1993 by Scarlet Press, and reprinted in the US in 1996 by Harper Perennial .