[Vwoolf] Another Daisy

[Stuart N. Clarke]

No, because it was a nickname.

Stuart

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Has anyone mentioned Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick (1861-1938), thought to have inspired the song about "a bicycle made for two" and known for her unorthodox choices? I don't see any links to India for Greville, but one of the 
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Has anyone mentioned Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick (1861-1938), thought to have inspired the song about "a bicycle made for two" and known for her unorthodox choices?  I don't see any links to India for Greville, but one of the men with whom she had an affair and several illegitimate children was Lord Charles Beresford who does have ties to India.  He also fell in love with and proposed multiple times to Nancy Wahinekapu Sunmer, Hawaiian high chiefess, of Hawaiian, Tahitian, and English descent.  Just a runaway thought!!!


Helen


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      Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Greville, Countess of Warwick (née Maynard; 10 December 1861 – 26 July 1938) was a British socialite and philanthropist.Although embedded in late-Victorian British high society, she was also a campaigning socialist, supporting many schemes to aid the less well off in education, housing, employment, and pay.She established colleges for the education of women in ...
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      Nancy Wahinekapu Sumner (March 9, 1839 – January 10, 1895) was a high chiefess during the Kingdom of Hawaii of Hawaiian, Tahitian and English descent. She served as lady-in-waiting of Queen Emma and was one of the most prominent ladies of the Hawaiian royal court during the reigns of Kamehameha IV and Kamehameha V
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I woke up in the middle of the night recalling another, strange, Daisy. It is the nickname that Steerforth bestows on David Copperfield in Dickens’s novel. ‘My dear young Davy,’ he [Steerforth] said, clapping me on the shoulder 
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I woke up in the middle of the night recalling another, strange, Daisy. It is the nickname that Steerforth bestows on David Copperfield in Dickens’s novel.



‘My dear young Davy,’ he [Steerforth] said, clapping me on the shoulder again, ‘you are a very Daisy. The daisy of the field, at sunrise, is not fresher than you are.’



When the evening was pretty far spent, and a tray of glasses and decanters came in, Steerforth promised, over the fire, that he would seriously think of going down into the country with me. There was no hurry, he said; a week hence would do; and his mother hospitably said the same. While we were talking, he more than once called me Daisy; which brought Miss Dartle out again.

               ‘But really, Mr. Copperfield,’ she asked, ‘is it a nickname? And why does he give it you? Is it - eh? - because he thinks you young and innocent? I am so stupid in these things.’

               I coloured in replying that I believed it was.



As a million examination questions have it: “Discuss.”



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