Social Victorians/People

Political and Social Elite People of the Late Victorian Era

These are not really biographies in these pages. They are collections of the data needed to identify who was at social events as described in newspapers, magazines, diaries and letters at the time, and they collect information about social events these people attended. In every case, the page links to and cites other sources of biography, especially the biography pages in Wikipedia. If no biography has been written, as in the cases of, for example, Miss Muriel Wilson and Arthur Collins, the data is here for a biography, which will like result in a biography page in Wikipedia, as has already happened for Arthur Collins.

• People Invited to Events Hosted by the Prince and Princess of Wales (the big, undifferentiated list)
• People Who Attended the Duchess of Devonshire's 1897 Fancy-dress Ball
• Non-English Diplomats, Ambassadors and Ministers Who Attended Events in London at the End of the Century
• Members of the Armed Forces Who Attended Royal Functions

Some Social Networks

• The "Royal Mob," Victoria's Children and Grandchildren
• The British Aristocracy
• The Marlborough House Set
• People Whose Photographs Are in the Album Given as a Gift to the Duchess of Devonshire for Her 1897 Fancy Dress Ball
• LGBTQ People Who Moved around in "Society"
• Jews in the Aristocracy
• American Heiresses Who Married British Peers
• The Souls
• The Lovely Five
• The Bedford Park Set
• People Working in Publishing and Journalism

Spiritual Societies

• The Anthroposophical Society
• Freemasons
• The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
• The Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (SRIA)
• Theosophical Society
• Alpha and Omega (Golden Dawn offshoot led by Mathers after he left the Golden Dawn in 1900)
• The Hermetic Colony Association
• The Hermetic Society
• The Sanitary Wood Wool Co.

Some Notable Individuals

Charismatic Mega-People

• Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and then Edward VII, King of England
• Alexandra, Princess of Wales, and then Queen, wife of Edward VII
• Louisa (or Luise) Friederike Auguste Gräfin von Alten Montagu Cavendish, Duchess of Manchester and Duchess of Devonshire
• Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
• Jack the Ripper
• Marian Evans (George Eliot) and George Henry Lewes
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• George Bernard Shaw
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Queen Victoria
• Oscar Wilde
• William Butler Yeats

Folks with Some Public Presence

• James Granville Adderley
• James Archer
• Edward Aveling
• George Pierce Baker
• Gerald Balfour
• William Walter Bartlett
• Faustin Betbeder
• Allan Bennett
• Annie Besant
• Walter Besant
• Helena Blavatsky
• Chatarine Booth
• Charles Bradlaugh
• Charles Sidney Herbert Burrows
• Arthur Collins
• Mabel Collins
• Robert Hawthorne Collins
• Edith Craig
• Aleister Crowley
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• Richard Carrington
• G. K. Chesteron
• Arnold Dolmetsch
• Mabel Dolmetsch
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Charles Robert Drysdale
• Havelock Ellis
• Florence Farr
• Frank Fay
• Augustus Wollaston Franks
• Anne Gilchrist
• Thomas Patrick Gill
• William E. Gladstone
• Edward William Godwin
• Maud Gonne
• Lady Gregory
• Lady Violet Greville
• Pandit Gurtu
• James Hinton
• Aldous Huxley
• Henry Irving
• Anna Bonus Kingsford
• Jiddu Krishnamurti
• James Stack Lauder, or Lafayette
• Cecil Lawson
• Elizabeth Lawson (mother of Cecil)
• O. Leslie-Stephen
• Arthur Machen
• Edward Maitland
• Eleanor Marx, or Eleanor Marx Aveling
• John Masefield
• Fiona McLeod (William Sharp)
• George Moore
• William Morris
• Henry Steel Olcott
• Margaret Oliphant
• Henry and Isabel Oppenheim
• Sidney Paget
• Karl Pearson
• Henry Petre
• Charles Pierpont Phelps
• Arthur Pinero
• Frank Podmore
• William Poel
• Ponsonby Family
• Edward John and Agnes Poynter
• Charles Hercules Read
• Dante Dabriel and Christina Rossetti
• William Rothenstein
• the Rothschild family
• Walter Sickert
• Rudolph Steiner
• William Thomas Stead
• Joseph Marshall Stoddart
• Arthur Sullivan
• Ellen Terry
• Flora Thompson
• Sybil Thorndike
• John Todhunter
• Arnold Toynbee
• John Tyndall
• Mrs. Humphrey Ward
• Beatrice Potter Webb and Sidney Webb
• Oscar and Constance Wilde
• Guy Fleetwood Wilson
• Virginia Woolf

People Whose Lives Were, Essentially, Private

• Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Jonathan Hutchinson
• Mary Ann Nichols
• Marion Sambourne