William Gilpin

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...