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Harriet Arbuthnot (10 settembre 1793 – Woodford, 2 agosto 1834) è stata una scrittrice britannica autrice di diari, osservatrice sociale e testimone politica per conto del partito Tory all'inizio del XIX secolo.
Harriet Arbuthnot (née Fane; 10 September 1793 – 2 August 1834) was an early 19th-century English diarist, social observer and political hostess on behalf of the Tory party. During the 1820s she was the closest woman friend of the hero of Waterloo and British Prime Minister, the 1st Duke of Wellington.
12 gen 2015 · In 1814, at the age of 20, Harriet married Charles Arbuthnot, a 46-year-old widower with four children and so began a marriage that catapulted her into what she called ‘the vortex of politics’.
13 gen 2015 · Tweet. In 1814, when Harriet Fane married Charles Arbuthnot, one of the joint secretaries of the Treasury, she was catapulted into ‘the vortex of politics’. The Journal of Mrs. Arbuthnot 1820-1832 not only reveals the inner workings of Tory party politics but also demonstrates how upper class women could play a serious role in ...
Harriett Arbuthnot (1793-1834) was a diarist and notable political hostess for the Tory party. Marrying Charles Arbuthnot (who was at the heart of British politics as joint Secretary of the Treasury) enabled her to become close friends with Lord Castlereagh and the Duke of Wellington.
Harriet Arbuthnot (1793-1834), Charles’ second wife, kept one of the most remarkable of all political diaries from 1820 to 1832, published only in 1950. She was a highly intelligent and perceptive woman, close apparently platonic friend of Castlereagh and Wellington and to a lesser extent of Liverpool himself; her editor the 7th Duke of ...
January 1826-January 1832. Edited by Brancis Bamford and the Duke of Wellington. London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1950, 490 pages. Anyone who's ever read about Waterloo's hero, the Duke of Wellington, has read about his closeness to Mrs. Arbuthnot. Many biographers—as well as their contemporaries—say she was his mistress, though no one has ever ...
