The house, reached by a steep cart-track with hairpin bends, stood in an olive grove with a grapevine over the door. RF
went back to England the following autumn, and was still there when Sillitoe...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach
She was an ornament of high society and sought out literary friends. She was, for instance, a long-term friend and correspondent of Horace Walpole
, who published her writings on his private press at Strawberry Hill
Reception
Cassandra, Lady Hawke
CLH
's immediate family were warm in their admiration. Frances Burney
, who read Julia de Gramont when it was passed to her by the queen, found it all of a piece—all love, love, love...
Leisure and Society
Lady Eleanor Butler
They treated the house like a smaller version of an ancestral family estate. They added various improvements, like the library at the back, which had windows in pointed gothic arches, paintings and miniatures on the...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
William Beckford
, who had already demonstrated his hostility to women writers, annotated his copy of this work (which is now in the Beinecke Library
at Yale University
). He uses Benger as an example...
