MEB
published a novel generally considered one of her best, The Lady's Mile, dedicated to Sir Henry Landseer
and giving her identity allusively by reference to her most famous title.
Visitors to Rivenhall included Edwin Landseer
, Anthony Trollope
and George Meredith
. Frequent visits of guests, coupled with the fact that the entire family was expected to participate actively in social life, gave the...
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 511
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
The previously published essays include pieces on Austen
and Landseer
, and the early Toilers and Spinsters.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The paired heroines of The Lady's Mile each tread close to being seduced across that camouflaged barrier after each has, for quite different reasons, entered a loveless marriage. The beautiful, aristocratic, and noble but impoverished...
Timeline
1843: Thirty-eight years after the British naval...
Building item
1843
Thirty-eight years after the British naval victory of Trafalgar, the basic structure of Nelson
's Column, erected in the newly developed Trafalgar Square in honour of the victor, was finally completed.
Colley, Linda. “Powered by Fear”. London Review of Books, 3 Feb. 2005, pp. 14-15.
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1868: Sir Edwin Landseer's painting Braemar, Deer...
Building item
1868
Sir Edwin Landseer
's painting Braemar, Deer sold for £4,200; the Society of Female Artists
' catalogue of this same year lists prices in the range of £2 to £52 10s.
Nunn, Pamela Gerrish. Victorian Women Artists. Women’s Press, 1987.