Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.
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Education | Elizabeth Rigby | While in Germany, she learned German and developed an appreciation of German arts which informs her later writings. (She also taught herself Russian while living with her sister in the Baltics.) Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961. 6 |
Education | Sybille Bedford | The idea had been that Jack and Suzan Robbins should select a boarding school for Sibylle and have her to stay for the holidays. Instead, with the money provided by her family and trustees, they... |
Education | Marjorie Bowen | She also started drawing, despite having no money for paints or canvases, and gained permission to copy at the National Gallery
and the British Museum
. There, she learned the techniques of oil painting and... |
Education | John Oliver Hobbes | She then attended a number of schools: a boarding establishment at Newbury in Berkshire between 1876 and 1877 (run by the Misses Godwin), a school in Paris from 1880 to 1881 (she was fluent in... |
Education | Anita Brookner | AB
was educated at James Allen's Girls' School
in Dulwich, South London. She embarked on a general BA at King's College, London
but found the course boring. At the suggestion of a lunchtime lecturer... |
Employer | Kathleen Raine | KR
was Andrew Mellon Lecturer at the National Gallery
of Art, Washington, DC. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 46: 315 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Gregory | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Nina Hamnett | At twenty-two, NH
felt it was time she experienced sex. She selected a most beautiful creature with long green eyes and hands like the Angel in the National Gallery
by Filippino Lippi
, and with... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Brigid Brophy | BB
, on her twenty-fifth birthday, married art historian Michael Levey
, who later became Director of the National Gallery
and who was knighted in 1981. Brophy, Brigid. “Afterword”. The King of a Rainy Country, Virago, 1990. 280 Murdoch, Iris. Living on Paper. Editors Horner, Avril and Ann Rowe, Chatto and Windus, 2015. 616 |
Friends, Associates | Adelaide Procter | Kemble describes AP
in this setting as looking already like a poet, with a preternaturally thoughtful, mournful expression for a little child. Kemble, Fanny. Records of a Girlhood. Henry Holt, 1879. 499 |
Friends, Associates | Maria Callcott | In Rome they got to know the painter Charles Eastlake
, and through him other artists, such as John Jackson
and J. W. M. Turner
. MC
's developing interest in the pre-Renaissance art of... |
Occupation | Muriel Spark | After the war, MS
got an editorial job on the Argentor, the quarterly trade magazine of the National Jewellers' Association
. The work involved writing, editing, proof-reading, and research on jewellery at the College of Heralds |
Occupation | Elizabeth Rigby | The Russian journey launched ER
's literary career, through the success of the book she wrote about it. Already an experienced translator, she was encouraged by this success to write essays and reviews for periodicals... |
Occupation | Lady Colin Campbell | During the 1870s the future LCC
developed a passion for art. She went on to become a close associate of some of the most famous artists of the day. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | U. A. Fanthorpe | The cover features Uccello
's well-known painting St George and the Dragon, in the National Gallery
, subject of Not My Best Side, the poem which remains UAF
's single best-known work. Cover-paintings... |
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