Critic Andrew Elfenbein
interprets her assumption in her poetry of the male role of genius to suggest a degree of lesbian orientation in AB
, though nothing is known of her sexual attitudes or behaviour.
Cultural formation
Anne Damer
Literary historian Andrew Elfenbein
argues that these attacks formed part of a general assault on the morals of the aristocracy. AD
stepped up her artistic activities during the next decade, and this rendered her liable...
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
38 (1803): 110ff
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.
143
The Poetical Register praised the volume for poetical...
Occupation
Anne Damer
AD
was not only a diarist, novelist, and amateur actress: she became, from the 1780s, a successful and even famous sculptor. Andrew Elfenbein
notes the application to her of such terms as female genius and...
Textual Features
Anne Damer
Critic Andrew Elfenbein
considers that the true subject of AD
's bas-relief of Antony and Cleopatra is physical intimacy between women, in this case between Cleopatra and Charmian.
qtd. in
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.
116
Textual Features
Mary Berry
The plot exposes false female friendship in the person of Lady Selina Vapour (played by Damer
). Lady Selina is capricious, and bored when alone with Mrs Lovell (played by MB
). Scholar Andrew Elfenbein
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Texts
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.