Social Victorians/People/The Souls
The "Souls"
[edit | edit source]David Cannadine calls the Souls a "self-regarding coterie."[1]:226
Queen Victoria on the Souls:
It is not true that Victoria was humourless, but when it came to irony or country-house larkiness, she drew a blank. Everything she heard, for example, about the Souls – the 'set' who included Arthur Balfour, Margot Asquith, the Duchess of Rutland et al – made her say, 'they really should be told not to be so silly!'[2]:910 of 1204
People in the Organization
[edit | edit source]- Margaret Tennant Asquith
- Arthur Balfour
- Wilfred Scawen Blunt
- St. John Brodrick (William St. John Freemantle Brodrick)
- Mary Wyndham Charteris, Lady Elcho
- Hugo Charteris, Lord Elcho
- George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
- "Nina" Emmeline Cust
- "Harry" Henry Cust
- "Ettie" Ethel Grenfell, Lady Desborough
- William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough
- Alfred Lyttelton
- Laura Tennant Lyttelton
- Edith Sophy Balfour Lyttelton
- Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland
- Diana Manners (Violet Manners' daughter by Cust)
- Henry White, the U.S. diplomat
- Daisy (Margaret Stuvysant) White
- "Gay" Alberta Windsor-Clive, Lady Windsor
- Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
- George Wyndham
- Madeline Pamela Constance Blanche Wyndham
- Percy Wyndham
- Sybil Fane, Countess Westmorland
- Godfrey Webb
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- "The Souls." Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Souls (accessed April 2019).
- ↑ Cannadine, David. The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy. New York: Yale University Press, 1990.
- ↑ Wilson, A. N. Victoria: A Life. Penguin, 2014. Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/victoria/id828766078.