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Family and Intimate relationships | Amelia Opie | Amelia Alderson
married John Opie
, who came from Cornwall and had made a name for himself as a peasant painter: that is, one of lower-class origins, whose carefully cultivated rough appearance proved a valuable... |
Friends, Associates | Lucy Aikin | In her memoirs LA
claims to have been acquainted with all the notable literary women of her time. She was a close friend of Joanna Baillie
and Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
. Another important friend and... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Matilda Betham | Meanwhile Edward Jerningham
, Charlotte's uncle (himself a writer), took an interest in MMB
's development. Lewis Bettany
has no index entry for MMB
in his Edward Jerningham and His Friends, 1919: unsurprisingly, since... |
Leisure and Society | Hannah More | Frances Boscawen
commissioned another portrait of her, by John Opie
(husband of Amelia Opie). Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952. 57 |
Leisure and Society | Mary Delany | |
Leisure and Society | Mary Wollstonecraft | The painter John Opie
did a portrait of her at this time (now in Tate Britain
) which shows her wearing a fashionable, curled white wig. This seems to have been a studio prop, since... |
Publishing | Amelia Opie | The fifth edition, 1808, has a frontispiece engraving of the painting by her husband
which is now at Chawton House Library
. It went through six editions of 1,000 to 1,500 copies in the years... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Moody | Personal matters mingle with others of public or topical interest, as EM
addresses Joseph Priestley
on the inter-relation of matter and spirit, Marie Antoinette
on her sufferings before her execution, and Dr Thomas Huet
on... |
Textual Features | Eliza Fletcher | EF
's arrangement is chronological, with original documents printed as they occur or are relevant. Her recall is excellent, her observations and analysis acute, her character-drawing perceptive, and her style pithy. She freely and candidly... |
Textual Production | Amelia Opie | AO
's memoir of her husband
was published in his Lectures on Painting; King and Pierce say that some time after April 1807 she edited his Lectures and Memoirs. Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix. xxxviii Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997. 123n5 |
Travel | Anne Plumptre | Taking advantage of the new freedom of English people to visit post-Revolutionary France, she joined forces with John
and Amelia Opie
to travel first to Paris. She stayed there for eight months (not enough... |
Travel | Amelia Opie | During the brief interval of peace AO
travelled to Paris with her husband
, hoping to see Napoleon
, whom she then admired. Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix. xxxviii Macgregor, Margaret Eliot. Amelia Alderson Opie: Worldling and Friend. Banta, Oct.–Jan. 1932, http://PR 5115 O3Z7 M2. 37-8 |
Wealth and Poverty | Amelia Opie | In the early years of their marriage Amelia
and John Opie
were badly off, and John was cautious about money matters. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under John Opie |
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