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Parties, Performances, Funerals, and Knots that Collected Eminent and Less-than-Eminent Victorians
This wiki collects information about social events in London toward the end of the reign of Queen Victoria. The Victorians were supremely social people and the aristocracy, the people I mostly study, even more so. Little research has been done on their social lives and social networks, mostly because we haven't really decided, I think, what kinds of information would tell us about them. For the Victorians, that question was easier to answer than it has been for us: they'd find out about social events in the newspapers, and they'd track their own presence in the social world by their presence in newspaper accounts.

This site begins with events, some of which are listed below. An event might be a party of some kind, a funeral, a performance of a play or show, or even the run of an exhibition. The closer we look at any of these events, the clearer it is that every event is made up of other events: prior events, sub-events, subsequent events, related events.

Some Social Events

 * Fancy Dress Ball hosted by the Duchess of Devonshire at Devonshire House (2 July 1897)
 * The Funeral of Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield
 * The American Exhibition in London, 1887
 * The Founding of the Royal College of Music
 * The 100th Performance of the Merchant of Venice at the Lyceum and the Centenary Celebration Dinner Hosted by Henry Irving

Some Threads and Knots

 * "Aristocratic Lady Journalists"
 * The Marlborough House Set
 * The Duchess of Devonshire's Fancy-dress Ball: Networks Present
 * Haslemere
 * The Golden Dawn

A list of people

 * The Souls
 * The Lovely Five
 * The "Royal Mob," Victoria's Children and Grandchildren
 * Non-English Diplomats, Ambassadors and Ministers Who Attended Events in London at the End of the Century
 * Members of the Armed Forces Who Attended Royal Functions
 * People Who Attended Events Hosted by the Prince and Princess of Wales
 * The Bedford Park Set
 * The Golden Dawn
 * Alpha and Omega (Golden Dawn offshoot led by Mathers after he left the Golden Dawn in 1900)
 * The Anthroposophical Society
 * Freemason
 * The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
 * The Hermetic Colony Association
 * The Hermetic Society
 * The Sanitary Wood Wool Co.
 * The Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (SRIA)
 * Theosophical Society

Victorian Things and Everyday Objects

 * Newspapers

A list of places

 * The Reading Room at the British Library
 * Bedford Park
 * Haslemere

The Aristocracy

 * The British Aristocracy
 * Courtiers' appointments, requirements, and lives

A list of organizations, businesses, and concerns

 * London Clubs and Cliques
 * The Men and Women's Club
 * Newspapers
 * Todd, Dennes and Lamb, solicitors: 22 Chancery Lane, London, WC
 * John M. Watkins, booksellers and publishers