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 | 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. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray. 3-6 |
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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sir Joshua Reynolds |
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 | Phillis Wheatley | Her enumeration of those she met in London is impressive, including several noblemen, Benjamin Franklin
, the scientist Daniel Solander
, the religious poet and hymn-writer Thomas Gibbons
, the abolitionist Granville Sharp
(who took... |
Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | That year HMW
was introduced by Dr John Moore
to Burns
, with whom she then corresponded. She met Samuel Rogers
(in November 1787), Hester Lynch Piozzi
, and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. The year... |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke
in Bristol the previous September... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Reynolds | Many of FR
's friends were literary people who wrote down their flattering opinions of her. James Northcote
, who lived in Joshua Reynolds
's house during the years 1771-5, wrote much praise of Frances... |
Friends, Associates | Oliver Goldsmith | Goldsmith met and became a friend and associate of Edmund Burke
, Samuel Johnson
, Sir Joshua Reynolds
, and others belonging to the Club, of which he was a founder member. He was a... |
Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | She had already begun to move in fashionable circles, and became friendly with Lady Caroline Lamb
, Lady Cork
, and painters James Northcote
and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. i - xxix. xxxvii |