The letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake / edited by Julie Sheldon.
"2009 is the bicentenary of the birth of the English writer, translator, critic and amateur artist Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake (1809-1893). Bringing together a comprehensive collection of her surviving correspondence, the Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake reveals significant new mate...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Liverpool English texts and studies ;
v. 55. |
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | "2009 is the bicentenary of the birth of the English writer, translator, critic and amateur artist Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake (1809-1893). Bringing together a comprehensive collection of her surviving correspondence, the Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake reveals significant new material about this extraordinary figure in Victorian society." "The scope of Lady Eastlake's writing is wide and interdisciplinary, which recommends her as a significant figure in Victorian culture, giving rise to revelations about the ways in which different cultural activities were linked. Lady Eastlake lived for extended periods of time abroad in Germany and Estonia, and wrote an early work about her impressions of the Baltic, her subsequent writing took the form of reviews for the periodical press, including reviews of Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, Ruskin, Coleridge, and Madame de Stael. She also wrote on women's subjects, including articles on the education of women. However, the great proportions of her publications are art-related reviews: she wrote one of earliest critical texts on photography and produced several essays on artists." "The lively correspondence of Lady Eastlake not only contributes to a more holistic understanding of nineteenth-century culture, it also shows how a well connected woman could play an important role in the Victorian art world."--Jacket. |
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| Item Description: | Series title taken from publisher's Web site: Liverpool English texts and studies ; v. 55. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 662 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1789624215 9781789624212 1846311942 9781846311949 |