tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post2811532806659849582..comments2023-10-20T11:17:47.246-04:00Comments on Two Nerdy History Girls: Men Behaving Well: Horace Walpole & Women ArtistsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-57923332468176317012009-12-15T20:24:41.307-05:002009-12-15T20:24:41.307-05:00I also recommend the Lady Di Beauclerk bio as well...I also recommend the Lady Di Beauclerk bio as well, it offers a good dilenation of divorce and scandal and artistic endeavour. And for biographical hist fic Life Mask does a fairly good job incorporating art, theatre, aristocracy, lesbianism, and politics. (I did, however, prefer the author's much darker novel Slammerkin!)Margaret Porterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16202290659191790984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-46890089377736964792009-12-15T14:59:33.478-05:002009-12-15T14:59:33.478-05:00Ingrid, Elizabeth, thank you for the book suggesti...Ingrid, Elizabeth, thank you for the book suggestions. Ingrid, the English were and are class conscious, but he was definitely considered a snob, even then. (That he behaves unusually well in some ways doesn't mean he was without fault or flaw.) But I'm really not at all sure the social status of the artist would influence his taste. I'd have to let the art historians address that one. How many non-aristocratic women artists were around at the time? Anybody know?Loretta Chasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02170060214285828433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-53712389838446880542009-12-15T11:46:29.830-05:002009-12-15T11:46:29.830-05:00Ingrid got to it first, but I was also going to re...Ingrid got to it first, but I was also going to recommend the Emma Donoghue novel. There is also a biography of Lady Diana Beauclerk as well. I discovered her when I saw an exhibition on late 18th century and early 19th century women at the NYPL. I find Walpole to be one of the most fascinating figures of the 18th century.Elizabeth Kerri Mahonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07763642809052430107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-40256501785862005742009-12-15T04:00:33.885-05:002009-12-15T04:00:33.885-05:00Interesting post, Loretta!
I always get the impres...Interesting post, Loretta!<br />I always get the impression that Horace Walpole was rather class conscious. These women artists were aristocrats, that may have been part of the attraction for him.<br /><br />I can recommend a novel about Anne Seymour Damer: Life Mask by Emma Donoghue.Ingridnoreply@blogger.com