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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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 |
Literary responses | Katherine Mansfield | After Mansfield's death, Woolf
wrote in her diary: it seemed to me there was no point in writing. Katherine won't read it. qtd. in Gunn, Kirsty. “How the Laundry Basket Squeaked”. London Review of Books, Vol. 35 , No. 7, 12 Apr. 2013, pp. 25-6. 25 |
Leisure and Society | Charlotte Lennox | This portrait was engraved in the 1770s by Henry Richard Cook
, and by Francesco Bartolozzi
for S. and E. Harding
's abortive 1793 edition of her Shakespear Illustrated. The painting itself does not... |
Leisure and Society | P. D. James | The Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery
commissioned a painting of PDJ
, and she was asked to choose the artist. She enjoyed the thirteen sittings it took for the young painter of her choice,... |
Leisure and Society | Elinor James | EJ
had her portrait painted by an unknown artist (the canvas now resides at the National Portrait Gallery
), wearing a red silk dress and displaying several of her publications including a splendidly bound copy... |
Leisure and Society | Cicely Hamilton | A striking photographic portrait of CH
by Lena Connell
, taken in 1912, is now in the National Portrait Gallery
. Williams, Val, and Susan Bright. How We Are: Photographing Britain. Tate Publishing, 2007. 78 |
Textual Production | Antonia Fraser | In 2012 AF
collaborated with Tanya Cooper
to publish through the National Portrait GalleryA Guide to Tudor and Jacobean Portraits. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Leisure and Society | Anne Finch | AF
was painted in a miniature by Peter Cross
(now in the National Portrait Gallery
) round about 1690. She left another, later miniature of her by Zincke
in her will to Lady Hertford
... |
Leisure and Society | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
was painted several times. The National Portrait Gallery
has a portrait of her and her husband by Ford Madox Brown
, commissioned by family friend and politician Sir Charles Dilke
and painted in 1874... |
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, 1996. 275 Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1968. 378 The portrait may... |
Leisure and Society | Amelia B. Edwards | In Rome on her way to Egypt, ABE
was sculpted in marble by Percival Ball
. The sculpture is now in the National Portrait Gallery
in London. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Leisure and Society | Mary Delany | |
Leisure and Society | Jane Collier | JC
may have had her portrait painted. A mezzotint by J. Faber, Jr
, now in the National Portrait Gallery
, has been identified as her, but on very inadequate evidence. |
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 |
Textual Production | A. S. Byatt | ASB
continued her interest in Ovid
with Arachne, a literary essay, in Ovid Metamorphosed, edited by Philip Terry
in early 2000. Byatt, A. S. “Arachne”. Ovid Metamorphosed, edited by Philip Terry, Chatto and Windus, 2000, pp. 131-57. 131 |
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