| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- Chapter 1: "Peerless Ailesbury" -- Chapter 2: Marriage to John Damer -- Chapter 3: "Witches 'Round the Cauldron" -- Chapter 4: Disaster -- Chapter 5: "Too Strictly Right Ever to be Beloved" -- Chapter 6: The "Widow's Joys" -- Chapter 7: The Sylph and Rehabilitation -- Chapter 8: Damer's Second Trip to Italy -- Chapter 9: Park Place and Hieroglyphic Tales -- Chapter 10: Theatricals at Richmond House -- Chapter 11: Damer's Correspondence with Charles Hotham -- Chapter 12: A Shifting Ménage à Trois -- Chapter 13: Departure for Lisbon -- Chapter 14: Return to England -- Chapter 15: Anne Damer as Sculptor -- Chapter 16: Damer as Sculptor, Attempts at a Brief Catalogue Raisonné -- Chapter 17: Anne Damer and Mary Berry on Literature -- Chapter 18: Damer in Portugal -- Chapter 19: Damer's Return from Lisbon, "A Proselyte to Painting" -- Chapter 20: Damer and Walpole -- Chapter 21: "That Thread That Holds Minds Together" -- Chapter 22: Mary Berry and Charles O'Hara -- Chapter 23: Recovery and Inheritance of Strawberry Hill -- Chapter 24: Belmour and Fashionable Friends -- Chapter 25: Death of Anne Damer's Mother -- Chapter 26: "Infallible Tokens of Affection" -- Chapter 27: Damer and Susan Ferrier's Marriage -- Chapter 28: Anne Damer and India -- Glossary of Principal Names -- Bibliography -- About the Author |
| Summary |
The first biography of Anne Damer since 1908, The Life of Anne Damer: Portrait of a Regency Artist, by Jonathan Gross, draws on previously unpublished letters to explore the life and legacy of England's first significant female sculptor. This biography will interest historians of Georgian, England, and readers in the fine arts, literature, and history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828.
|
| SUBJECT |
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828 fast |
| Subject |
Sculptors -- Great Britain -- Biography
|
|
Women sculptors -- Great Britain -- Biography
|
|
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
|
|
ART -- Sculpture & Installation.
|
|
Courts and courtiers
|
|
Sculptors
|
|
Women sculptors
|
| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Biography
|
| Subject |
Great Britain
|
| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
|
|
Biographies
|
|
Biographies.
|
|
Biographies.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9780739167670 |
|
0739167677 |
|
