Royal Academy

By 1873, KG began receiving offers to illustrate popular books and magazines; she left school to pursue a career as an illustrator, while hoping to become a published author. Her pictures for greetings cards for...

In 2012 AC took the chorus part in a staged reading of her own Antigonick (adapted from Sophocles ), 2012. A few years later she took the title role with great fierceness in Tacita Dean...

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.

AMH was already writing and drawing as a professional when Henry Chorley , editor of the Ladies' Companion, commissioned her to go to Oberammergau and report on the passion play. On her return to...

Charles Landseer (brother of Sir Edwin Landseer ) exhibited at the Royal Academy a painting from JB 's De Monfort; he had already painted Samuel Richardson 's Clarissa.

Between 1819 and 1831, ES 's second husband exhibited at the Academy from four different addresses around London: the first, where they stayed longest (for seven years) was 34 Percy Street. He exhibited from...

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...

The Headland was strongly influenced by the writing of Dorothy Richardson , whom Dawson Scott had met in Cornwall during the first world war. Its story takes three chapters for three cataclysmic days. The protagonist...

AD began exhibiting her sculpture at the annual Royal Academy show in London; she was a regular contributor to this event until 1818.

AMH exhibited for the only time at the Royal Academy , with a picture entitled The Castaway, which depicts a fallen woman or prostitute.