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.
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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 |
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... |
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 |
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 | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | Horace Walpole
published at his home-basedStrawberry Hill Press
a 75-copy edition of The Sleep-Walker by Lady Craven (later EMA
), a translation and adaptation of Antoine de Fériol de Pont-De-Veyle
's French comedy La... |
Dedications | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | Lady Craven
published for the Author her Modern Anecdote of the Family of Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotschderns, A Tale for Christmas 1779, a little book no bigger than a silver penny, Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon. 11: 108 Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. Modern Anecdote of the Ancient Family of the Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotchderns. title-page, prelims |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | Elizabeth wrote years later that her mother, Lady Berkeley, born Elizabeth Drax
, had in general no love for children. Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach. Henry Colburn. 1: 7 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | She was an ornament of high society and sought out literary friends. She was, for instance, a long-term friend and correspondent of Horace Walpole
, who published her writings on his private press at Strawberry Hill |
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