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Carlota Isabel Maria de Saldanha, Duchess of Saldanha

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Carlota Isabel Maria de Saldanha, Duchess of Saldanha

by Fratelli D'Alessandri
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
3 5/8 in. x 2 1/8 in. (92 mm x 53 mm) image size
Purchased, 1976
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax46347

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  • Place made: Italy (photographers' studio, Rome, Italy)

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An early feminist movement, The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women is founded by Adelaide Anne Proctor, Emily Faithfull, Helen Blackburn, Bessie Parks, Emily Davies, Barbara Bodichon, and Jessie Boucherett.
The Florence Nightingale Training School for Nurses opens at St Thomas's Hospital, in London, funded from the testimonial fund collected for Nightingale following her war services, and helping to establish nursing as a profession.

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William Morris and new wife Jane Burden move into the Red House, near Bexleyheath, Kent. The house, designed by Philip Webb, represents Morris's principle in interior design, that no object should be in a house that is not beautiful.
Ford Madox Brown paints The Last of England, showing a boat of emigrants leaving England under desperate circumstances, inspired by the emigration of the Pre-Raphaelite Thomas Woolner to Australia in 1852.

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Italian unification continues as the Treaty of Turin brings much of Northern Italy under nationalist leader Cavour's control, who cedes Savoy and Nice to France. Garibaldi siezes the opportunity to invade Marsala in Sicily with his army of 1,000 redshirts, proclaiming himself dictator in the name of Victor Emmanuel II.
Republican Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the US, with only 39% of the popular vote.

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Kieran Owens

04 February 2016, 15:24

This lady was born Charlotte Elisabeth Mary Smith, on the 10th March 1810. She was the daughter of Michael Athelstane Smith, Esq., by his wife, Sarah Walton. Her brother, John Smith-Athelstane, was born on the 9th May 1813, was the author of 'The Memoirs of the Marques of Pombal'. By the decree of King Louis of Portugal, dated 9th August 1870, he was created the Count of Carnota.

Kieran Owens

04 February 2016, 15:02

This lady died in Merrion Square, Dublin, in the home of her son-in-law, on the 22nd January 1886, aged 77 years, and is buried under a fine memorial cross in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.