Social Victorians/People/Lady Colin Campbell

Also Known As

 * Family name: Blood
 * Gertrude Elizabeth Blood
 * Gertrude Elizabeth, Lady Colin Campbell

Demographics

 * Nationality: Irish; husband Scots

Family

 * Gertrude Elizabeth, Lady Colin Campbell; Gertrude Elizabeth Blood (3 May 1857 – 1 November 1911)
 * Lord Colin Campbell (9 March 1853 – 18 June 1895)

Relations

 * Colin Campbell was the son of the 8th Duke of Argyll and brother of John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll and Marquis of Lorne, who was married to Princess Louise.

Organizations

 * Not a formal organization, but one of the Aristocratic Lady Journalists

Timeline
1879, Lady Colin Campbell's Manners and Rules of Good Society was first published, pseudonymously.

1893, Lady Colin Campbell's Manners and Rules of Good Society, a revision and enlargement of Manners and Rules of Good Society, was first published, pseudonymously.

1897, Giovanni Boldoni painted this iconic portrait of Lady Colin Campbell (right).

1897, July 2, Friday, Lady Colin Campbell did not attend the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

Questions and Notes

 * 1) Lady Colin Campbell's Manners and Rules of Good Society, first published in 1993, was in its 21st edition in 1896,

Lady Colin Campbell's Writing

 * Manners and Tone of Good Society, Or Solecisms to Be Avoided, by a Member of the Aristocracy (London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1879).
 * A Book of the Running Brook: And of Still Waters (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886).
 * Darell Blake: A Study (London: Trischler And Company, 1889).
 * Manners and Rules of Good Society; Or Solecisms to Be Avoided, by a Member of the Aristocracy (London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1893).
 * A Woman's Walks: Studies in Colour Abroad and at Home (Eveleigh Nash, 1903).