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Occupation | Mary Delany | MD
was still playing the harpsichord (performing for friends in private) until well into her eighties. 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. 210n9 Hayden, Ruth. Mrs. Delany: Her Life and Her Flowers. British Museum. 53-4 |
Textual Production | Mary Delany | MD
was a great admirer of Handel
and in her letters often mentions attending performances of his music. She wrote of her efforts on the libretto that it has cost me a great deal of... |
Textual Features | Mary Whateley Darwall | |
Education | Anna Eliza Bray | Her father taught her music and she had the privilege of learning to play on a family treasure, a spinet originally belonging to Handel
. Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall. 94 |
Textual Production | Anna Eliza Bray | During the summer and autumn of 1834 AEB
began Handel
: His Life, Personal and Professional, with some thoughts on sacred music. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Patricia Beer | This poem's subject is the love-affair of Semele with Jove. Semele wished to see Jove in his true, not assumed form; when he complied and appeared as godhead she was burned to death in his... |
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