Conway, Alison. Private Interests. University of Toronto Press.
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Occupation | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | She had suddenly conceived the ambition of becoming an artist (the only profession open to her, as a girl of good family) when she heard that this was the choice of the cousin with whom... |
Leisure and Society | Grace Elliott | Thomas Gainsborough
painted GE
(already publicly known to be a courtesan) and caused scandal by exhibiting her portrait at the Royal Academy
. This painting is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
, New York. Conway, Alison. Private Interests. University of Toronto Press. fig. 2 Conway, Alison. Private Interests. University of Toronto Press. 40, 227n83 |
Leisure and Society | Grace Elliott | Thomas Gainsborough
exhibited at the Royal Academy
another portrait of GE
, painted some months earlier while she was pregnant, staring defiantly at the viewer. This painting is now in the Frick Museum
, New York. Conway, Alison. Private Interests. University of Toronto Press. fig. 3 Conway, Alison. Private Interests. University of Toronto Press. 40, 227n84 Major, Joanne, and Sarah Murden. An Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the Celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott. Pen and Sword Books. 94 |
Leisure and Society | George Eliot | Exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1867 and now in the National Portrait Gallery
, this was said by those who knew GE
to be the best likeness of her. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 275 Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 378 The portrait may... |
Textual Features | Ella Hepworth Dixon | EHD
's heroine, Mary Erle, struggles to negotiate contemporary notions of femininity, marriage, and motherhood with her own desire to live independently and to pursue her own profession. After her father's death, she faces the... |
Textual Production | Anne Damer | AD
began exhibiting her sculpture at the annual Royal Academy
show in London; she was a regular contributor to this event until 1818. Bakewell, Susan. “A Muse on the Move: The Hon. Anne Seymour Damer, from England to Italy (via France, Germany, Spain, and Portugal), 1762-1799”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Providence, RI. |
Education | Edith Craig | EC
studied music in Berlin with Alexis Holländer
and at London's Royal Academy
, aiming to become a concert pianist. Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago. 110 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 37 |
Leisure and Society | Hannah Cowley | Richard Cosway
's painting of HCprotected by the Comic Muse was exhibited at the Royal Academy
; it was also engraved for reproduction in the Ladies Magazine. Escott, Angela. The Celebrated Hannah Cowley. Pickering and Chatto. 3 and n13, 5 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Power Cobbe | Lloyd was the daughter of the squire of Rhagatt in Merionethshire, Wales; a maiden aunt in the family had been a friend of the Ladies of Llangollen (Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC
's brother Joseph Alfred
(known as Alfred) set up the famous family music firm, which gave a continuing framework to the publishing projects of his father. He managed the firm until 1856. Edward Petre |
Occupation | Emily Frederick Clark | EFC
painted miniatures, which she exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1799. She told the RLF in 1811 that in addition to publishing from an early age she taught drawing. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Occupation | Anne Carson | |
Leisure and Society | Mary Brunton | On her second visit she took in the Royal Academy
Exhibition and visited the National School
under the guidance of Dr Andrew Bell
(a Scots Anglican clergyman, formerly of Madras, author of An Experiment in... |
Education | Charlotte Brontë | Both Charlotte and Branwell aspired to become artists. She studied drawing seriously, first with a private tutor, later at Roe Head, and after her return independently, by copying romantic illustrations from annuals such as Friendship's... |
Leisure and Society | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Socially MEB
downplayed her status as an author, aided by the fact that as Mrs Maxwell—a name she went by even before marriage—she could move in society incognito. To this end, she attempted to... |
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