Escott, Angela. The Celebrated Hannah Cowley. Pickering and Chatto.
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Leisure and Society | Hannah Cowley | Richard Cosway
's painting of HCprotected by the Comic Muse was exhibited at the Royal Academy
; it was also engraved for reproduction in the Ladies Magazine. Escott, Angela. The Celebrated Hannah Cowley. Pickering and Chatto. 3 and n13, 5 |
Leisure and Society | George Eliot | Exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1867 and now in the National Portrait Gallery
, this was said by those who knew GE
to be the best likeness of her. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 275 Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 378 The portrait may... |
Leisure and Society | Grace Elliott | Thomas Gainsborough
painted GE
(already publicly known to be a courtesan) and caused scandal by exhibiting her portrait at the Royal Academy
. This painting is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
, New York. Conway, Alison. Private Interests. University of Toronto Press. fig. 2 Conway, Alison. Private Interests. University of Toronto Press. 40, 227n83 |
Leisure and Society | Grace Elliott | Thomas Gainsborough
exhibited at the Royal Academy
another portrait of GE
, painted some months earlier while she was pregnant, staring defiantly at the viewer. This painting is now in the Frick Museum
, New York. Conway, Alison. Private Interests. University of Toronto Press. fig. 3 Conway, Alison. Private Interests. University of Toronto Press. 40, 227n84 Major, Joanne, and Sarah Murden. An Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the Celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott. Pen and Sword Books. 94 |
Leisure and Society | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | Her portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence
was exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1822. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 8 Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey. 36 Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 106 |
Leisure and Society | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Socially MEB
downplayed her status as an author, aided by the fact that as Mrs Maxwell—a name she went by even before marriage—she could move in society incognito. To this end, she attempted to... |
Literary responses | Q. D. Leavis | Fiction and the Reading Public was widely reviewed. In the Criterion of July 1932, T. S. Eliot
commended its argument: A society which does not recognize the existence of art is barbaric. But a society... |
Literary Setting | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Miss Angel traces Kauffmann
's career as that of a serious artist and working woman who becomes a society figure and a founding member of the Royal Academy
in London, but slants its representation... |
Occupation | Anna Mary Howitt | AMH
was already writing and drawing as a professional when Henry Chorley
, editor of the Ladies' Companion, commissioned her to go to Oberammergau and report on the passion play. On her return to... |
Occupation | Anne Carson | |
Occupation | Emily Frederick Clark | EFC
painted miniatures, which she exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1799. She told the RLF in 1811 that in addition to publishing from an early age she taught drawing. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Occupation | Sarojini Naidu | Earlier this year she had worked with British professionals in the arts to choose and assemble artefacts for a major exhibition of Indian art at the Royal Academy
in London during the coming winter. Roberts, Cleo. “1947: India, Art and Nationhood”. London Library Magazine, No. 38, pp. 22-5. 24-5 |
Occupation | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | She had suddenly conceived the ambition of becoming an artist (the only profession open to her, as a girl of good family) when she heard that this was the choice of the cousin with whom... |
Occupation | Rosemary Sutcliff | She began to work as a miniature painter, following advice from her parents and the headmaster of Bideford Art School
(who allowed her to use an empty room there as her studio) that she would... |
Occupation | Pat Arrowsmith | The young PA
was serious about her drawing and painting. She showed considerable talent and her diary records a high investment of time in these pursuits. She sold a pencil copy of a landscape (in... |
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