Mary Seton Watts

Standard Name: Watts, Mary Seton

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Travel Christina Fraser-Tytler
CFT visited Germany and Italy with some of her family, including her sister Mary .
Gould, Veronica Franklin. Mary Seton Watts (1849-1938): Unsung Heroine of the Art Nouveau. The Watts Gallery.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Textual Production Christina Fraser-Tytler
CFT 's first publication was the short-story collection Sweet Violet, and Other Stories, illustrated by MFT, probably her sister.
The British Library Catalogue identifies this illustrator with Margaret Fraser Tytler , an author...
Literary responses Emilie Barrington
Mary Watts , in her own biography, set out to demolish and replace that of EB : in print she recorded that she did not read it till six years after publication, when she was...
Leisure and Society Christina Fraser-Tytler
Owing to CFT 's connections she featured in portraits by her artist sister and in photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron .
Gould, Veronica Franklin. Mary Seton Watts (1849-1938): Unsung Heroine of the Art Nouveau. The Watts Gallery.
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Friends, Associates Emilie Barrington
Barrington and Watts had a host of mutual friends, among them Leighton and other artists, and the US patron Mary Mead .
Blunt, Wilfrid Jasper Walter. ’England’s Michelangelo’. H. Hamilton.
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Watts's courtship of Mary Fraser-Tytler put his friendship with EB under strain....
Family and Intimate relationships Christina Fraser-Tytler
CFT 's mother, born Etheldred St Barbe , died after the birth of her fourth daughter, Eleanor , in May 1851, and her husband re-married.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
thePeerage.com. http://www.thepeerage.com/.
Gould, Veronica Franklin. Mary Seton Watts (1849-1938): Unsung Heroine of the Art Nouveau. The Watts Gallery.
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“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Veronica Franklin Gould 's biography of Mary Watts ,...
Family and Intimate relationships Christina Fraser-Tytler
CFT 's sister who became by marriage Mary Watts grew up to be an artist who in a retrospective of her work at the Watts Gallery in 1998 was called the unsung heroine of the...
Family and Intimate relationships Christina Fraser-Tytler
CFT 's portrait was painted by her sister Mary at least twice, in 1870 and again in 1877. In the spring of 1870 Christina chaperoned her younger sister on her first visit to George Frederic Watts

Timeline

1896: Mary Seton Watts, artist, designer, and architect,...

Building item

1896

Mary Seton Watts , artist, designer, and architect, founded the Compton Potters' Arts Guild .

Texts

Watts, Mary Seton. George Frederic Watts: The Annals of an Artist’s Life. Hodder and Stoughton, 1912.
Fraser-Tytler, Christina, and Mary Seton Watts. Sweet Violet. Hatchards, 1869.