Anne Procter

AP 's mother, born Anne Skepper , was a clever and observant woman, a frequent and influential hostess to the London literary elite. Frances Kemble considered her notable for her pungent epigrams and brilliant sallies...

ER appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy , where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron (Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray . At London parties...

Her father's closest friends were from the literary elite: the ProctersAnne Procter and the CarlylesJane Welsh Carlyle . ATR was friends with Dickens 's daughters, particularly Kate Dickens .George Smith was from the 1840s a...

GJ entered the social scene of the capital with several connections already made. Her London friends included members of the Kingsley and Rossetti families, feminist reformer Frances Power Cobbe , author John Ruskin , Samuel Carter

Her mother encouraged her love of poetry, before AP could write, by making for her daughter a little album into which she copied her favourite passages. Dickens commented: It looks as if she had carried...

Anne Procter initiated a subscription fund on ABJ 's behalf, which garnered Jameson an annuity of £100 and a gift of £70.

Anne Procter and Thackeray were active in soliciting financial aid for her. John Murray and Thackeray later became her trustees.