Sir Joshua Reynolds

Standard Name: Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Reception Mary Palmer
The original Dictionary of National Biography called MP 's writing as represented in these texts the best piece of literature in the vernacular of Devon.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
But there is almost a parable of female fame in...
Residence Frances Reynolds
The year after their father died, Joshua Reynolds settled at Plymouth Dock in Devon, and Frances and his next youngest sister left the family home at Plympton Erle in Devon to live with him there.
Wendorf, Richard. Sir Joshua Reynolds. Harvard University Press.
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Residence Frances Reynolds
FR 's style of living changed radically when she left Devon to live with her elder brother Joshua in St Martin's Lane, London.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua. The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Editors Ingamells, John and John Edgcumbe, Yale University Press.
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Wendorf, Richard. Sir Joshua Reynolds. Harvard University Press.
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Textual Features Georgina Munro
A debauched earl is the narrator of this novel, which, typically for the genre, is peopled by characters from the gentry and the upper classes.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
744 (1842):110
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
The story is set during the reign of...
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.
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She hopes to place her subject in a light, possibly...
Textual Features Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan
Although Sir Joshua Reynolds supposed MBCL insufficiently skilled as an artist to manage history painting,
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press.
8: 238
and Rose E. McCalmont in Memoirs of the Binghams, 1915, was dismissive about her artistic work, Horace Walpole
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
Textual Production Mary Palmer
MP wrote at a time when, as Martyn Wakelin puts it, standard English had become a norm that drove out other dialects except in local speech and in literary works whose authors were after local...
Textual Production Mary Palmer
The learned gloss on her words by James F. Palmer , by contrast, occupied 75 pages and was not reliable.
It asserts that in MP 's like a daver'd rose the adjective means something like...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
Many of the poems continue the autobiographical mode of her first two books, with fawning gratitude for favourable reception as a writer. Many are elegiac, lamenting or commemorating people and places that had been dear...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
This work has been valued chiefly for its anecdotes of Samuel Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds . LMH closes the volume on the name of Reynolds (printed in honorific capitals), in an implicit tribute to...
Wealth and Poverty Frances Reynolds
FR was to all appearances dependent on her brother for money. He enjoyed the use of his self-made wealth, and commissioned, for instance, a particularly eye-catching carriage, heavily carved and gilded, with the four seasons...
Wealth and Poverty Mary Palmer
MP 's financial position as a comfortably married woman enabled her to assist members of her birth family. Having backed her brother Joshua 's educational travels in Italy in 1749-52, she was in 1775 balancing...

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