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dc.contributor.authorSheldon, Julie
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-25 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T15:21:58Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T15:21:58Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier389225
dc.identifierOCN: 798294447en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34641
dc.description.abstract2009 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesLiverpool English Text and Studies
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction proseen_US
dc.subject.otherletters and journals
dc.subject.otherdiaries
dc.subject.othervroege kritiek
dc.subject.otherearly critic
dc.subject.otherdagboeken
dc.subject.otherbrieven en dagbladen
dc.subject.othervroege fotografie
dc.subject.otherruskin
dc.subject.otherearly photography
dc.subject.otherAusten Henry Layard
dc.subject.otherFitzroy Square
dc.subject.otherItaly
dc.subject.otherLondon
dc.subject.otherVenice
dc.titleThe Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.26530/OAPEN_389225
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy4dc2afaf-832c-43bc-9ac6-8ae6b31a53dc
oapen.relation.isFundedBy780772a6-efb4-48c3-b268-5edaad8380c4
oapen.collectionOAPEN-UK
oapen.series.number55
oapen.pages608
oapen.place.publicationLiverpool
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Austen Henry Layard - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austen_Henry_Layard; Fitzroy Square - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzroy_Square; Italy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy; London - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London; Venice - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice
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