Byatt, A. S. “Arachne”. Ovid Metamorphosed, edited by Philip Terry, Chatto and Windus, pp. 131-57.
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Burnet | Sir Godfrey Kneller
painted EB
's portrait (now in the National Portrait Gallery
) in this same year. 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 | 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... |
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