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Frederic, Baron Leighton
Standard Name: Leighton, Frederic,,, Baron
Used Form: Lord Leighton of Stretton
Connections
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Textual Production | Emilie Barrington | EB
published another biography, The Life, Letters, and Work of Frederic Leighton, who was also a friend of hers: it was the first major book about him. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 239 (10 August 1906): 279 |
Reception | Lucy Walford | After the publication of Recollections of a Scottish NovelistLW
decided that there were still stories in her mind that rank among the great days of my life, yet which did not fit in with... |
Publishing | Mary Boyle | MB
published a translation from German, Woodland Gossip, with illustrations by the Royal Academician Frederic Leighton
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Publishing | George Eliot | GE
's historical novel Romola appeared serially in the Cornhill Magazine, with illustrations by Frederic Leighton
. Her partner G. H. Lewes
had just accepted, upon the departure of Thackeray
as editor in March... |
Publishing | Adelaide Kemble | It had appeared in the Cornhill Magazine before being published in volume form. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Leisure and Society | Adelaide Kemble | In Rome AK
and her husband entertained what her friend Elizabeth Barrett Browning
described as the best company. 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. “Frederic Leighton: Miss May Sartoris”. Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth: Collections: European. |
Friends, Associates | Emilie Barrington | She met him again through their mutual friend Mrs Nassau Senior
. Watts's biographer Ronald Chapman
suggests that Watts needed Barrington as a mirror to show him his reflection, to present to him an encouraging... |
Friends, Associates | Emilie Barrington | EB
's friendship with Frederic Leighton
was in its early stages connected with her friendship with his sister Alexandra Orr
(author of A Handbook to the Works of Robert Browning). When she ceased to... |
Friends, Associates | George Eliot | Despite her and Lewes's uneven health, they were still able at times to socialise with the likes of Robert Browning
, Frederic Leighton
, Clara Schumann
, Alfred Tennyson
, Dean Stanley
, J. A. Froude |
Friends, Associates | Pauline Johnson | In London, PJ
visited and recited poetry before Edward Burne-Jones
, George Frederic Watts
, Frederic Leighton
, Lawrence Alma-Tadema
, and Jerome K. Jerome
, among others. Keller, Betty. Pauline: A Biography of Pauline Johnson. Douglas and McIntyre. 80 |
Friends, Associates | Adelaide Kemble | The friends of her married life included the artist Leighton
, sculptor Hattie Hosmer
, authors Charles Hamilton Aïdé
, Henry Greville
, William Makepeace Thackeray
, and Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. She... |
Timeline
1881: The Kyrle Society (founded by Octavia Hill...
Building item
1881
The Kyrle Society
(founded by Octavia Hill
in 1877) held its first public meeting, which Emilie Barrington
described some years later in a letter to The Times.
25 January 1896: Lord Leighton of Stretton died: he was a...
Building item
25 January 1896
Lord Leighton of Stretton
died: he was a leading classical painter and President of the Royal Academy
.
Texts
Kemble, Adelaide et al. A Week in a French Country-House. Smith, Elder, 1903.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray et al. “Preface”. A Week in a French Country-House, Smith, Elder, 1903, p. i - xlv.
Frederic, Baron Leighton, et al. Woodland Gossip. Translator Boyle, Mary, Thomas McLean, 1864.