Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, p. i - cxxxviii.
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Textual Features | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | In 1775 she told Horace Walpole
, in reply to verse flattery from him, that she was Conscious that oft she felt the Muse's pow'r, / But conscious too, she felt it oft in vain. Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, p. i - cxxxviii. xviii |
Literary responses | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | A somewhat belated notice in the Critical Review specifically approved this epilogue; Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 5th series: 53 (1782): 315 Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, p. i - cxxxviii. xxii |
Literary responses | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | Walpole
thought this work careless and incorrect, but there are very pretty things in it. Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, p. i - cxxxviii. xx |
Publishing | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | She dedicated it to her correspondent, the Margrave
, saying that she exposes her letters to the malice of my enemies, without reserve, merely to oblige many of my friends. Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople. G. G. J. and J. Robinson. Journery prelims 4 |
Publishing | Mary Delany | A stage of the work was privately and anonymously printed as A Catalogue of Plants Copyed from Nature in Paper Mosaick, finished in the year 1778, and disposed in alphabetical order, according to the generic... |
Literary responses | Mary Delany | In a letter she slighted her own work as my usual presumption of copying beautiful nature. Linney, Verna. “A Passion for Art, a Passion for Botany: Mary Delany and her Floral ’Mosaiks’”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol. 1 , pp. 203-35. 224 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Damer | Her father, Henry Seymour Conway
, was an army officer who rose to be Field-Marshal. His distinguished military career was matched by his services to Whig politics. His literary interests made him a friend of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Damer | Horace Walpole
was Anne's godfather. Noble, Percy. Anne Seymour Damer: A Woman of Art and Fashion, 1748-1828. Kegan Paul. 5 |
Instructor | Anne Damer | AD
's mastery of Latin and her respectable knowledge of Greek were self-acquired, though Horace Walpole
had a hand in her education. She studied sculpture from childhood, being taught by Giuseppe Ceracchi
, John Bacon |
Wealth and Poverty | Anne Damer | John Damer had lost £20,000 at the gaming tables in a single night not long before his death—a sum to cast a shadow over his expectations of inheriting £30,000. Rizzo, Betty. Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women. University of Georgia Press. 366n27 |
Occupation | Anne Damer | AD
was also a scholar (Horace Walpole
said she wrote Latin like Pliny
) and a book-collector. She patronised writing by women, by subscribing (for instance) to Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by Catherine Jemmat |
Friends, Associates | Anne Damer | AD
's wide circle of friends included Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, Lady Melbourne
, Joanna Baillie
, Sarah Siddons
, the Berrysisters
, the dramatist Lady Elizabeth Craven (formerly Berkeley, later Margravine of Anspach) |
Residence | Anne Damer | |
Textual Production | Anne Damer | AD
's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they... |
Textual Production | Anne Damer | The Lewis Walpole Library
holds four volumes of AD
's notebooks, containing extracts from her own letters addressed to a woman who must be Mary Berry
, thirteen complete letters from her to Horace Walpole |
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