Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
64 (1787): 308
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Dedications | Elizabeth Cobbold | EC
(as Eliza Knipe) published Six Narrative Poems by subscription, at London, dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 64 (1787): 308 |
Education | Maria Callcott | MC
later remembered this, like her former school, as anti-intellectual. She was warned against too much study. I used to hear that it was a pity I was not a boy . . . but... |
Education | Jane Marcet | Jane Haldimand was educated at home, where she read widely in both English and French. She had lessons from tutors in mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy (the last-named a close relation of modern science. Her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Reynolds | The painter Sir Joshua Reynolds
(estranged brother of FR
) died of liver disease at his house in Leicester Square, London. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. under Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Family and Intimate relationships | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | The senior Wilmots' circle of friends included people still remembered, like Hannah More
, David Garrick
, Sir Joshua Reynolds
, and Lady Charlotte Finch
. Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Lyster, GertrudeEditor , John Murray, 1908. 3-6 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Reynolds | Of five brothers, two died young, one became a naval officer and another an ironmonger. Joshua
, who was six years older than Frances, became the most successful portrait painter of his generation. His life... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Fielding | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Palmer | The best-known among MP
's siblings was her brother Joshua
, seven years her junior, whose work as a portrait painter eventually won him a knighthood and the first Presidency of the Royal Academy
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Robinson | MR
's affairs with the prince and with Fox overlapped with the beginning of what turned out to be her most enduring relationship: with Banastre Tarleton
, an army colonel and a pitiless hero in... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Robinson | Robinson found good friends among the male cultural and social leaders with whom she remained free to mix. Her daughter particularly mentions, as well as Sheridan
, Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Edmund Burke
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Samuel Johnson | Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period... |
Friends, Associates | Henrietta Battier | In London HB
met many leading figures in cultural and intellectual life. She visited and confided in Samuel Johnson
, and developed a warm admiration for him. Battier, Henrietta. The Protected Fugitives. James Porter, 1791. xii-xv |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | During her childhood, ECK
associated with a variety of celebrated people through her family connections. Her mother was a close friend of painter and writer Frances Reynolds
(sister to the more famous painter Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Friends, Associates | Mary Leadbeater | While in England ML
visited Edmund Burke
at Beaconsfield. He had attended school and university with her father and had been taught by her grandfather; he made his final visit to Ballitore in 1786... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Trimmer | In London, Sarah met William Hogarth
, Thomas Gainsborough
, Sir Joshua Reynolds
, and Dr Samuel Johnson
. She attracted Johnson's notice by producing from her pocket a copy of Paradise Lost, when... |