BH
retained at least one life-long friendship from her Sheffield or Attercliffe days: with the poet and novelist Sarah Pearson
, who had been her neighbour there. Pearson's will charged Hofland with the task of...
Publishing
Eliza Haywood
The British Library
copy of The Unequal Conflict is fashionably bound, like that of The Rash Resolve, in red leather with gold-tooled Harleian borders, marbled endpapers, and a decorated, embossed spine. The unique copy...
Residence
Elizabeth Smith
Even before the Smith family lost their money they were far less rooted than most people of the gentry class. In 1782 they moved from the family home at Burnhall or Burn Hall near Durham...
Residence
Elizabeth Smith
In July 1792 Elizabeth described being pushed about from one room to another at Piercefield Parkwith an old house about our ears.
Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1809.
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Demolition must have accompanied Sir John Soane
's grand new plans...
Textual Features
Barbara Hofland
The point of this story is the way that women's capabilities are underestimated. The merchant, Mr Daventree, considers his wife more dependent on him than she really was.
Hofland, Barbara. The Merchant’s Widow and Her Family. 4th edition, A. K. Newman, 1823.
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When he runs into business difficulties...
Textual Production
Barbara Hofland
BH
supplied text for a guide to a London art collection: Description of the House and Museum on the North Side of Lincoln's Inn Fields, the residence of Sir John Soane.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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Timeline
1813: Dulwich Picture Gallery in the London borough...
Building item
1813
Dulwich Picture Gallery in the London borough of Southwark was designed by architect Sir John Soane
as the world's first purpose-built public art gallery.
Beard, Mary. “Half-Wrecked”. London Review of Books, 17 Feb. 2000, pp. 24-5.