The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheldon, Julie.

Series:

Liverpool English Texts and Studies

Liverpool English Texts and Studies ; v.55

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eastlake, Elizabeth Rigby, 1809-1893.

Alltag, Brauchtum.

History (General).

Great Britain.

Europa.

Genre:

Tagebuch.

Briefsammlung.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 662 pages) : digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

[Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Liverpool University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

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ISBN:

9781789624212

1789624215

OCLC:

1138501016