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 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
... |
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... |
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 | Hannah More | Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke
in Bristol the previous September... |