During her months in Florence, FPC
visited the Brownings, Thomas Adolphus Trollope
, and Walter Savage Landor
. While there she also became a close friend of Mary Somerville
.
Cobbe, Frances Power. Life of Frances Power Cobbe. Houghton, Mifflin.
2: 346-9, 358
Leisure and Society
Isa Blagden
IB
was fond of society life, had a wide circle of friends, and was noted for her hospitality. Her home at the Villa Brichieri, with its terraced garden overlooking Florence and the Arno, was...
Friends, Associates
Isa Blagden
Thomas Adolphus Trollope
described IB
as a very bright, warm-hearted, very clever little woman, who knew everybody and was, I think, more universally beloved than any other individual among us.
Raymond, William O. “Our Lady of Bellosguardo: A Pastel Portrait”. University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol.
xii
, pp. 446-63.
456
Literary responses
Isa Blagden
Henry James
dismissed IB
's novels as the inevitable nice novel or two of the wandering English spinster.
West, Rebecca. Harriet Hume. Lester and Orpen Dennys.
446
IB
's texts have received scant critical attention, and the little which has been published frequently...