Anne Damer

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Standard Name: Damer, Anne
Birth Name: Anne Seymour Conway
Married Name: Anne Damer
AD , who won high critical praise as a sculptor, also wrote poetry and kept journals. She left one definitely and one possibly identified novels, and a series of linked fictional pieces, all published in the early nineteenth century.
Marble statue of Anne Damer as the Muse of Sculpture by Giuseppe Ceracchi, 1778. She stands on a square plinth engraved with her name ("The Honourable Anne Seymour Damer") wearing classical Greek garb, with a flower wreath on her tightly-curled hair and a girdle below her breasts. She holds a statuette of a river god, with urn. British Museum.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Lucy Hutchinson
The editor of the first, lavishly-produced edition of this history recommended it particularly to female readers, as more entertaining than most novels. He also silently cut from it about 9,000 words, besides tinkering with the...
Textual Production Mary Seymour Montague
It is likely though not absolutely certain that the author was really female. Her pseudonym suggests Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (who had died nine years earlier, and whom this poem praises as the only woman...
Textual Production Joanna Baillie
JB sent her friend Mary Berry a prologue for Fashionable Friends, Berry's play produced at Drury Lane by Anne Damer in 1802; she also wrote an epilogue for it.
Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. ix - xiv, 1.
2n7, 3
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
1: 153n2
Textual Production Joanna Baillie
Mary Berry and Anne Damer both offered comments and revisions four years before this play was published. Lady Louisa Stuart did the same (through Walter Scott) in 1809.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
1: 158-9, 244
Slagle, editor of JB
Textual Production Hannah Brand
HB addressed to her fellow-lesbian Anne Damer a poem whose manuscript survives at the Lewis Walpole Library at Farmington, Connecticut, along with others of Damer's papers.
Feminist Companion Archive.
under Damer
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Lady Charlotte Bury
The preface takes the form of some account of Damer 's life and character, making some mention of her reputation as a sculptor, her impeccable behaviour as the wife of a depraved husband, and...
Wealth and Poverty Horace Walpole
His will left Strawberry Hill to the sculptor and writer Anne Damer (a close family friend who had been the butt of satirical attack, with slurs on her sexuality), together with an annual income of...

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