Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
64 (1787): 308
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Dedications | Elizabeth Cobbold | EC
(as Eliza Knipe) published Six Narrative Poems by subscription, at London, dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 64 (1787): 308 |
Education | Maria Callcott | MC
later remembered this, like her former school, as anti-intellectual. She was warned against too much study. I used to hear that it was a pity I was not a boy . . . but... |
Education | Jane Marcet | Jane Haldimand was educated at home, where she read widely in both English and French. She had lessons from tutors in mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy (the last-named a close relation of modern science. Her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Reynolds | The painter Sir Joshua Reynolds
(estranged brother of FR
) died of liver disease at his house in Leicester Square, London. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. under Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Family and Intimate relationships | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | The senior Wilmots' circle of friends included people still remembered, like Hannah More
, David Garrick
, Sir Joshua Reynolds
, and Lady Charlotte Finch
. Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Lyster, GertrudeEditor , John Murray, 1908. 3-6 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Reynolds | Of five brothers, two died young, one became a naval officer and another an ironmonger. Joshua
, who was six years older than Frances, became the most successful portrait painter of his generation. His life... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Fielding | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Robinson | MR
's affairs with the prince and with Fox overlapped with the beginning of what turned out to be her most enduring relationship: with Banastre Tarleton
, an army colonel and a pitiless hero in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Palmer | The best-known among MP
's siblings was her brother Joshua
, seven years her junior, whose work as a portrait painter eventually won him a knighthood and the first Presidency of the Royal Academy
... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Burney | FB
made friends in the older generation as well as her own. The whole Burney family loved and were loved by David Garrick
. Sir Joshua Reynolds
, who lived barely fifty yards away from... |
Friends, Associates | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Other Streatham habitueés were Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Arthur Murphy
, Edmund Burke
, Oliver Goldsmith
, Charles Burney
, and David Garrick
. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987. 157 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | She was a well-known figure in London cultural circles, particularly that of the Bluestockings. Charles Burney
called her at-home evenings blue conversazioni's and Horace Walpole
called them quite Mazarine-blue. Others specifically mentioned in... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Cobbold | EC
corresponded with members of the London scientific intelligentsia: Sir James Edward Smith
, first President of the Linnean Society
(who encouraged Charlotte Smith
to introduce botanical information into her novels, but proved singularly unhelpful... |
Friends, Associates | Phillis Wheatley | Her enumeration of those she met in London is impressive, including several noblemen, Benjamin Franklin
, the scientist Daniel Solander
, the religious poet and hymn-writer Thomas Gibbons
, the abolitionist Granville Sharp
(who took... |
Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | That year HMW
was introduced by Dr John Moore
to Burns
, with whom she then corresponded. She met Samuel Rogers
(in November 1787), Hester Lynch Piozzi
, and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. The year... |