Anne Damer

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Standard Name: Damer, Anne
Birth Name: Anne Seymour Conway
Married Name: Anne Damer
AD , who won high critical praise as a sculptor, also wrote poetry and kept journals. She left one definitely and one possibly identified novels, and a series of linked fictional pieces, all published in the early nineteenth century.
Marble statue of Anne Damer as the Muse of Sculpture by Giuseppe Ceracchi, 1778. She stands on a square plinth engraved with her name ("The Honourable Anne Seymour Damer") wearing classical Greek garb, with a flower wreath on her tightly-curled hair and a girdle below her breasts. She holds a statuette of a river god, with urn. British Museum.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Berry
Even more important than Walpole to MB was his friend the sculptor and writer Anne Damer née Seymour, to whom he left a life tenancy in Strawberry Hill when he died. She and MB met...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Berry
Anne Damer acted as supporter and confidante of each, and freely interpreted O'Hara's feelings and actions to MB . He for his part became close to Damer and anxious that Berry at this turning point...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Charlotte Bury
Another first cousin was novelist and sculptor Anne Damer .
Friends, Associates Maria Callcott
In Richmond and elsewhere MC met emigrés fleeing the French Revolution. She also met a number of women who wrote: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , Mary and Agnes Berry , and Anne Damer . In...
Friends, Associates Mary Berry
The Berrys met Walpole in winter 1787-8, some months before July 1788, when they settled at Twickenham Common, close to his gothic mansion, Strawberry Hill.
Berry, Mary. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry. Editor Lewis, Lady Theresa, Longmans, Green, 1865, 3 vols.
1: 150
 He was a little past seventy, set...
Friends, Associates Mary Berry
Despite her relative poverty, MB moved easily in circles of the great and the good. Her closest friends were Anne Damer (whose death in 1828 was a terrible loss), Joanna Baillie (whom in 1831 she...
Friends, Associates Isabella Kelly
Her friends or perhaps patrons included General Henry Seymour Conway (father of the writer-sculptor Anne Damer ) and his whole family.
Kelly, Isabella. A Collection of Poems and Fables. Richardson, 1794.
39-40
Matthew Lewis (though given his general view of fiction by women he may...
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
Performance of text Joanna Baillie
JB wrote an epilogue to a play by Anne Damer , which was spoken by Damer at a performance of her work at Strawberry Hill.
Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, pp. ix - xiv, 1.
25
Publishing Helen Maria Williams
The Poems were in two volumes, with HMW 's name in full, published by Rivington and Marshall , with an engraved frontispiece drawn by Maria Cosway . Subscribers included the Prince of Wales (whose name...
Publishing Regina Maria Roche
The work bears a dedication, dated at London on 10 April 1828, to Princess Augusta Sophia .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 671
In her preface RMR , unusually, says something about herself, and the financial and emotional problems...
Publishing Eliza Parsons
She gave her name as Mrs. Parsons on the title-page and signed the dedication with both her names.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 512
A title-page epigraph reads: Brutus said Virtue was but a name—tis more. ....
Publishing Elizabeth Hands
The advertisement for the book in print, like the pre-notification, was carried by Jopson's Coventry Mercury. The volume was dedicated to the dramatist Bertie Greatheed . It was issued in two forms: ordinary copies...
Publishing Hannah Brand
It was printed at Norwich and sold through London publishers. The subscription list was impressive, including Anna Letitia Barbauld , John Brand (presumably HB 's brother) of Hemingston Hall in Suffolk, who took twenty copies...
Textual Features Hannah Cowley
A prologue complains that true comedy is being driven from the stage by farce and slapstick. The plot turns on the manoevres by which the despicable Fancourt seeks to swindle a provincial worthy, Sir Robert...

Timeline

1 April 1789: Hester Lynch Piozzi (a propos reports about...

Building item

1 April 1789

Hester Lynch Piozzi (a propos reports about Marie Antoinette ) indignantly recorded what she presents as if it was her first encounter with lesbianism.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin, 1973.
78

Texts

Damer, Anne. Belmour. Joseph Johnson, 1801, 3 vols.
Damer, Anne. Journal of the Heart. Editor Bury, Lady Charlotte, H. Colburn, 1830.
Damer, Anne. Letters of Miss Riversdale. Joseph Johnson, 1803, 3 vols.