William Gilpin

Catherine Gilpin belonged to a highly cultivated gentry family. She was the sister of William Gilpin , the well-known writer on the picturesque, whom Susanna's brother Richmond published; she lived at the moated Scaleby Castle...

BBBD was a friend, from her youth onwards, of William Gilpin and his brother Sawrey Gilpin , a painter of animals; they each assumed a paternal relationship with her. Ugo Foscolo was another significant literary...

At the local vicarage, William Gilpin , parson, author, and authority on the picturesque, educated CB . Their lessons included reading, writing, and drawing. Under Gilpin's instruction, she learned the artistic skills that made her...

In the grounds the Ladies followed William Shenstone 's concept of the ferme ornée; even their kitchen garden and orchard were beautified. The garden was approached by way of a gothic arch, where...

In a letter she slighted her own work as my usual presumption of copying beautiful nature. But Horace Walpole , Sir Joshua Reynolds , and William Gilpin , the authority on the picturesque, were...

These included exposure and restoration of buried half-timbering, building out bay windows, reopening the ceiling of the great hall to the rafters and adding a gallery, and building new cellar vaults with a passageway to...

The preface by L anticipates criticism, defends the title, and admits borrowing from Gilpin 's Hints for Sermons. LMH returns here to the much-discussed questions of women's education and social behaviour (she deplores the...