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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, http://Bodleian: 280 i 105. 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... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Brooke | FB
's friendship with Woffington led to her meeting Peg's sister Polly
, who became her lifelong friend. Eight years older than Brooke, Polly Woffington was a close friend of Samuel Johnson
, Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Friends, Associates | Frances Burney | FB
made friends in the older generation as well as her own. The whole Burney family loved and were loved by David Garrick
. Sir Joshua Reynolds
, who lived barely fifty yards away from... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | She was a well-known figure in London cultural circles, particularly that of the Bluestockings. Charles Burney
called her at-home evenings blue conversazioni's and Horace Walpole
called them quite Mazarine-blue. Others specifically mentioned in... |
Friends, Associates | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Other Streatham habitueés were Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Arthur Murphy
, Edmund Burke
, Oliver Goldsmith
, Charles Burney
, and David Garrick
. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press. 157 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Cobbold | EC
corresponded with members of the London scientific intelligentsia: Sir James Edward Smith
, first President of the Linnean Society
(who encouraged Charlotte Smith
to introduce botanical information into her novels, but proved singularly unhelpful... |
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... |
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