Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Introduction”. Harriet Hume, Lester and Orpen Dennys.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Rebecca West | The language is stilted an deliberately archaic. Victoria Glendinning
describes the novel as baroque in manner and matter, Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Introduction”. Harriet Hume, Lester and Orpen Dennys. 1 |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Montagu | Portraits of EM
include one by Allan Ramsay
, done in 1762, which shows her as an intellectual (she has been reading Hume
's History). Though her body is wrapped in expensive lace, her... |
Leisure and Society | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Among a huge number of paintings of her, Sir Joshua Reynolds
did two particularly memorable ones: as a round-eyed little girl with her mother, and one as a mother herself, her baby dancing on her... |
Leisure and Society | Mary Robinson | As a beautiful actress MR
was frequently painted by artists, who included Richard Cosway
, Thomas Gainsborough
, Angelica Kauffmann
, Thomas Lawrence
, Joshua Reynolds
, and George Romney
. As the prince's mistress... |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | In 1778 Elizabeth Craven had her portrait painted by George Romney
, apparently for Horace Walpole
, who two years later wrote that he had hung it in his favourite blue room. Romney painted... |
Leisure and Society | Mary Palmer | MP
's painter brother and sister did several portraits of her. Sir Joshua
painted her in 1747 and again some years later; Frances
painted herself and her sisters Mary and Elizabeth as a threesome. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Frances Reynolds |
Leisure and Society | Henrietta Sykes | Sir Joshua Reynolds
painted HS
at full length; the portrait remains at Sledmere. So does a group by Sir Thomas Lawrence
of her with her husband and brother-in-law. Sykes, Christopher Simon. The Big House. HarperCollins. 126, opposite 196 |
Leisure and Society | Charlotte Lennox | CL
was sitting for her portrait to Sir Joshua Reynolds
. He showed her as young and beautiful. This is Susan Carlile's dating; Duncan Isles placed the sitting later, just before the portrait was engraved... |
Leisure and Society | Sarah Trimmer | |
Leisure and Society | Hester Lynch Piozzi | The National Portrait Gallery
lists twelve portraits of HLP
, dated 1781 to 1811 (though some of these derive from each other and a couple are conversation-piece prints). Sir Joshua Reynolds
painted her with her... |
Literary responses | Mary Delany | In a letter she slighted her own work as my usual presumption of copying beautiful nature. Linney, Verna. “A Passion for Art, a Passion for Botany: Mary Delany and her Floral ’Mosaiks’”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol. 1 , pp. 203-35. 224 |
Author summary | Frances Reynolds | FR
, active in the later eighteenth century, was the author of poems (one printed), a published treatise on aesthetics, essays diary entries, and a memoir of Samuel Johnson
which reached print years after her... |
Publishing | Henrietta Battier | She hoped to get a volume of her collected poems published while she was in London in 1784, and enlisted the aid of Samuel Johnson. Johnson
offered positive encouragement (assuring her he had often been... |
Publishing | Charlotte Lennox | In about 1773-4 CL
planned a subscribers' edition with illustrations by Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Francesco Bartolozzi
, and Giovanni Battista Cipriani
; but this came to nothing. Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 18 , No. 4, pp. 317-44. 327 |
Publishing | Jane Warton | Some years after her brother Thomas's death (in 1790), JW
wrote to the Gentleman's Magazine to point out that a recent publication, Testimonies to the Genius and Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds, had omitted... |
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