The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake

The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake PDF

Author: Elizabeth Eastlake

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 673

ISBN-13: 1846311942

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This year marks the bicentennial of the English writer, translator, critic and amateur artist Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake (1809–93). The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake brings together a comprehensive collection of her surviving correspondence and reveals significant new material about this extraordinary Victorian figure. Rigby wrote on a variety of subjects, most notably reviews of works and authors such as Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, Ruskin, Coleridge, and Madame de Staël, as well as art-related criticism, including one of the earliest critical texts on photography. Her lively correspondence here shows how this well-connected woman played such an important role in the Victorian art world.

Fellowship

Fellowship PDF

Author: Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781020046421

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This is a collection of deeply personal letters from Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, a prolific Victorian writer, to her sister mourners during a time of grief. The letters offer profound reflections on life, death, faith, and the human experience. A must-read for anyone interested in Victorian culture and the art of letter writing. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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