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- The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Liverpool University Press
summary
2009 was 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.
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Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iii
- Acknowledgements
- pp. vi-vii
- Abbreviations
- pp. viii-ix
- Introduction
- pp. 1-28
- Select Bibliography
- pp. 647-650
Additional Information
ISBN
9781789624212
Related ISBN(s)
9781846311949
MARC Record
OCLC
1138501016
Pages
608
Launched on MUSE
2020-02-02
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
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