qtd. in
Neisius, Jean Gano. Acting the Role of Romance: Text and Subtext in the Work of Florence Marryat. Texas Christian University, May 1992.
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death | Emmeline Pankhurst | A statue in her honour was unveiled in Victoria Tower Gardens on 6 March 1930; Dame Ethel Smyth
conducted The March of the Women at the ceremony. A portrait done by Georgina Brackenbury
hangs in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Marryat | Herbert McPherson
, whom her will calls a friend and companion during many years of unbroken affection, remains a mystery in FM
's life. qtd. in Neisius, Jean Gano. Acting the Role of Romance: Text and Subtext in the Work of Florence Marryat. Texas Christian University, May 1992. 74 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amelia Opie | This was John Opie's second marriage; his first wife had deserted him and their marriage had been dissolved by act of parliament. The second marriage remained childless. John Opie had been enjoying professional success in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Linda Villari | The National Portrait Gallery
has an albumen print (an early photo) of Vincenzo Mazini taken in London nine months before his wedding. “Collections”. National Portrait Gallery. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | IT
married American painter and avant-garde photographer Curtis Moffat
. Six portraits by Curtis Moffat hang in the National Portrait Gallery
, London, some of which he created in collaboration with Olivia Wyndham
. The... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Colin Campbell | Considered déclassée by high society, LCC
found her way into more liberal, artistic circles. She associated with the artist Whistler
(who painted a portrait, now lost) and with writers George Bernard Shaw
and Henry James |
Intertextuality and Influence | Josephine Tey | Through an innovative blend of historical scholarship and detective fiction, the novel exonerates Richard III
for the murder of the little Princes in the Tower, pinning the crime on Henry VII
. JT
's... |
Leisure and Society | Jane Austen | Meanwhile the Rice portrait (so called from the family which now owns it) emerged into the light of scholarly controversy. This attractive full-length painting shows a lively, intelligent-looking adolescent girl, dark in colouring, wearing a... |
Leisure and Society | Jane Austen | In December 2011 a more formal portrait came before the public as representing Austen. Dated by the (extremely stylish) clothes to about 1815, this drawing in graphite or plumbago on vellum shows a seated woman... |
Leisure and Society | Noel Streatfeild | The National Portrait Gallery
holds a painting of NS
done in 1926 by Lewis Baumer
, in profile, which shows her looking cool and elegant and modern. |
Leisure and Society | Grace Lady Mildmay | The National Portrait Gallery
holds a painting of GLM
as an imposing, unbending figure, her hand possessively placed on a stack of her wrirings. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Leisure and Society | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
was in general unwilling to have any picture made of her (which casts some doubt on the six images said to be of her in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery
). But... |
Leisure and Society | Mary Berry | Anne Damer
, who broke new ground for women by her serious pursuit of a career as a sculptor, on 6 December 1793 completed a terracotta bust of MB
(now in the National Portrait Gallery |
Leisure and Society | Mary Stott | MS
studied singing for years, flirted with painting (as she put it), and had an enduring love-affair with gardening. Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber, 1973. 164-74 Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber, 1973. 169 |
Leisure and Society | Iris Murdoch | The painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
did a portrait of IM
in 1964, commissioned by St Anne's College
. Years later Tom Phillips
painted her for the National Portrait Gallery
, posed in front of Titian |