Sources from which excerpts are taken include Jane Austen
's letters, William Cobbett
's Rural Rides, painter Anna Lea Merritt
's book A Hamlet in Old Hampshire, Hampshire Days by William Henry Hudson
Timeline
1890: The Tate Gallery purchased its first work...
Building item
1890
The Tate Gallery
purchased its first work of art from a female artist, Anna Lea Merritt
's Love Locked Out.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.