Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Literary Property Changing Hands: The Peyraud Auction (New York City, 6 May 2009)”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
43
, No. 1, 2009, pp. 151-63. Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Leisure and Society | Hester Lynch Piozzi | The National Portrait Gallery
lists twelve portraits of HLP
, dated 1781 to 1811 (though some of these derive from each other and a couple are conversation-piece prints). Sir Joshua Reynolds
painted her with her... |
Leisure and Society | Frances Burney | A miniature of her (watercolour on ivory) by John Bogle
dated 1783, was bought for US$12,200, with fees, at the Peyraud
sale in New York in 2009. A well-known portrait of her painted in about... |
Leisure and Society | Maria Edgeworth | John Downman
painted an attractive half-length portrait of her in watercolour and pencil (now at Princeton University
) in 1807. After it changed hands at the Peyraud
sale in 2009, a reproduction of it was... |
Occupation | Lady Caroline Lamb | LCL
was an amateur artist of real ability. One of her emblematic designs was engraved as a frontispiece to A Christian Wreath for the Pagan Deities, 1820, a pedagogic work on Greek and Roman... |
Publishing | Mary Leadbeater | The University of Pennsylvania
paid $976 US for a copy of this collection (not in mint condition) at the Peyraud
sale in 2009. Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Literary Property Changing Hands: The Peyraud Auction (New York City, 6 May 2009)”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 43 , No. 1, 2009, pp. 151-63. |
Publishing | Jane Austen | JA
wrote of this novel, I can no more forget it, than a mother can forget her sucking child. qtd. in Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. 285 |
Textual Production | Alice Thornton | She brought this account of her life up to her husband's death. The original of this first book is not known to be extant, but a copy made by one of her descendants survives, identified... |
Textual Production | Hester Lynch Piozzi | The observations and reflections which, to the end of her life, HLP
never stopped writing down, included tireless annotation of the works of others. She confessed: I have a Trick of writing in the Margins... |
Textual Production | Frances Burney | The most substantial parts of FB
's immense hoard of personal and family papers are in the New York Public Library
(Berg Collection) and in the British Library
. Their division (sometimes two torn and... |
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