Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle
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Rosalind Frances Howard, Countess of Carlisle (20 February 1845 – 12 August 1921), sometimes known as The Radical Countess, was a British aristocrat and campaigner.
She was the wife of the George Howard, landscape painter and 9th Earl of Carlisle, with whom she had six sons and five daughters.[1] They moved in the pre-Raphaelite artistic and Liberal political circles; Lord Carlisle was an active Liberal MP from 1879.[1] Their many friends included William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones.
Rosalind Howard was involved in several causes, including women's suffrage and the temperance movement in Britain. She was the sister of Bertrand Russell's mother, and daughter of the 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley.
[edit] References
- Dorothy Henley (1958) Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle
- Charles Roberts (1962), The Radical Countess
- ^ a b David M. Fahey, ‘Howard [nee Stanley], Rosalind Frances, countess of Carlisle (1845-1921)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101034022/)
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