Anne Damer

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AD , who won high critical praise as a sculptor, also wrote poetry and kept journals. She left one definitely and one possibly identified novels, and a series of linked fictional pieces, all published in the early nineteenth century.
Marble statue of Anne Damer as the Muse of Sculpture by Giuseppe Ceracchi, 1778. She stands on a square plinth engraved with her name ("The Honourable Anne Seymour Damer") wearing classical Greek garb, with a flower wreath on her tightly-curled hair and a girdle below her breasts. She holds a statuette of a river god, with urn. British Museum.

Milestones

8 November 1749

Anne Seymour Conway (later AD ) was born at the handsome Palladian house of Coomb Bank, Sundridge, Kent; she was her parents' only child.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Noble, Percy. Anne Seymour Damer: A Woman of Art and Fashion, 1748-1828. Kegan Paul.
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By July 1801

AD published with Joseph Johnson her three-volume novel Belmour, an intelligent didactic tale.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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28 May 1828

AD died; she was buried with her sculptor's tools and apron, and the ashes of her dog Fidèle.
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.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press.
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Biography

Birth and Family

8 November 1749

Anne Seymour Conway (later AD ) was born at the handsome Palladian house of Coomb Bank, Sundridge, Kent; she was her parents' only child.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Noble, Percy. Anne Seymour Damer: A Woman of Art and Fashion, 1748-1828. Kegan Paul.
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