Helen Faucit (Helena (née Faucit Saville), Lady Martin)
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Helen Faucit (Helena (née Faucit Saville), Lady Martin)
by Unknown artist
hand-coloured lithograph, before 1889
17 1/4 in. x 14 1/2 in. (437 mm x 368 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D38294
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- Helen Faucit (Helena (née Faucit Saville), Lady Martin) (1814-1898), Actress; wife of Sir Theodore Martin. Sitter in 21 portraits.
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The London Dock strike takes place resulting in a victory for the dock workers striking over pay and conditions.Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act, allowing legal intervention between children and parents for the first time.
Charles Booth, the English social scientist, publishes the first volume of Life and Labour of the People, an extensive survey into the living conditions of London's East End working class communities.
Art and science
George Gissing's The Nether World, a dark account of the lives of the urban poor in Clerkenwell, is published. Gissing absorbs the French naturalist style of writers such as Emile Zola to produce a harshly realistic observation of life in London at the end of the nineteenth century.International
The Eiffel Tower is erected, designed by the French engineer and bridge builder Alexandre Gustave Eiffel for the Paris Exposition. At 300m high, it was the tallest manmade structure in the world at the time.The Second International organisation is formed at a Congress in Paris by various socialist and labour parties, with the intention of working together for international socialism. It also declared 1 May International Labour Day.
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Chris Goddard
26 November 2016, 14:39
I'm afraid the sitter is wrongly attributed. Lady Martin-Harvey never was "Helen Faucit". She was born Angelita Helena Maria de Silva, daughter of Ramón de Silva Ferro, FRAS, FRGS, FGS, Chilean Consul in London (amongst other things).
Chris Goddard
26 November 2016, 14:45
To continue...Lady M-H was never Helen Faucit, but Rose Myra Drummond (to whom a couple of other supposed portraits of Lady M-H are attributed) was responsible for a portrait of Helena Saville Faucit (1817–1898), Lady Martin, which is in the collection Glasgow Museums.