Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2nd ser. 5 (1792): 349
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Mary Robinson | MR
published a Monody to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2nd ser. 5 (1792): 349 |
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... |
Leisure and Society | Mary Robinson | As a beautiful actress MR
was frequently painted by artists, who included Richard Cosway
, Thomas Gainsborough
, Angelica Kauffmann
, Thomas Lawrence
, Joshua Reynolds
, and George Romney
. As the prince's mistress... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Robinson | Robinson found good friends among the male cultural and social leaders with whom she remained free to mix. Her daughter particularly mentions, as well as Sheridan
, Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Edmund Burke
, and... |
Textual Features | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
says she has often found that my own selection of relevant detail has lighted on facts passed over as insignificant by other writers. Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Private Life of Mrs. Siddons. V. Gollancz. 11 |
Leisure and Society | Henrietta Sykes | Sir Joshua Reynolds
painted HS
at full length; the portrait remains at Sledmere. So does a group by Sir Thomas Lawrence
of her with her husband and brother-in-law. Sykes, Christopher Simon. The Big House. HarperCollins. 126, opposite 196 |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Trimmer | In London, Sarah met William Hogarth
, Thomas Gainsborough
, Sir Joshua Reynolds
, and Dr Samuel Johnson
. She attracted Johnson's notice by producing from her pocket a copy of Paradise Lost, when... |
Leisure and Society | Sarah Trimmer | |
Publishing | Jane Warton | Some years after her brother Thomas's death (in 1790), JW
wrote to the Gentleman's Magazine to point out that a recent publication, Testimonies to the Genius and Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds, had omitted... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rebecca West | This novel revolves around four meetings (spread over several years) between pianist Harriet Hume and politician Arnold Condorex, characters who come to represent opposing forces—art and politics, private and public life, femininity and masculinity. Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Introduction”. Harriet Hume, Lester and Orpen Dennys. 2, 6 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rebecca West | The language is stilted an deliberately archaic. Victoria Glendinning
describes the novel as baroque in manner and matter, Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Introduction”. Harriet Hume, Lester and Orpen Dennys. 1 |
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... |
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