The blooming lady : worth £500,000 and her footman.
[England? : s.n.,
1867-1868?]
Dated from internal evidence - this ballad is probably concerned with Edward Strathearn Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn who was Conservative member of parliament for Thetford, Norfolk, from 1867 until the borough's disfranchisement the following year. Gordon's absences from his Edinburgh home in order to pursue his political career, and latterly his failing health, brought a measure of estrangement from his wife - this appears to be the theme of the ballad. Information from the 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography' online.
First line reads: It is of a blooming lady.
In two columns with an illustration beneath the title.
Gordon, Edward Strathairn Gordon, Baron, 1814-1879
Ballads, English
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