Background
Her father was Thomas Teed, and her mother"s maiden name was Jordan.
Her father was Thomas Teed, and her mother"s maiden name was Jordan.
Ellen Julia Hollond, née Teed (1822–1884) was an English writer and philanthropist. Foreign Hastings from 1837 to 1852. She spent part of the year, until his death in 1877, at her salon in Paris, which attracted the leading liberals.
According to Edmond de Pressensé, her circle was the most distinguished circle in Paris.
lieutenant included Odilon Barrot, Montalembert, Charles de Rémusat, François Mignet, Henri Martin, Laboulaye, Joseph d"Haussonville, Pierre Lanfrey, and Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol. Mistress Hollond herself was a listener rather than a talker.
Antipathy to the Second French Empire and to ultramontanism united royalists and republicans, liberal Catholics and theists. Nassau Senior met Jules Armand Dufaure there in 1862.
In 1846, she sat for the head of Monica in Ary Scheffer"s picture of Saint Augustine and his mother, and in 1852 Scheffer painted her portrait, now in the National Gallery.
About 1844 Mistress Hollond started the first crèche in London. She also founded an English nurses" home in Paris, with a branch at Nice.
The latter was still in existence at the end of the nineteenth century.
She died at Stanmore Hall, 29 November 1884.