Elizabeth Rigby

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Standard Name: Rigby, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Rigby
Married Name: Elizabeth Eastlake
Titled: Elizabeth, Lady Eastlake
Pseudonym: The Author of Letters from the Baltic
Pseudonym: The Author of Baltic Letters
Used Form: Lady Eastlake
As an art historian, journalist, and public figure, ER played a major role in shaping modern art criticism. Many of her publications introduced readers and artists to new influences from German art, while others confirmed the importance of the Italian masters. Through her literary and art-history reviews, she influenced Victorian public taste. Produced over a span of sixty years, her work includes travel writing, short stories, essays, and three translations. She was also a talented editor.
Broomfield, Andrea, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Prose by Victorian Women. Garland, 1996.
77-80
Black and white photograph of Elizabeth Rigby, seated, with her hands clasped in her lap. She is wearing a simple light dress with a long, full skirt, and a dark scarf wrapped around her shoulders. She is wearing small dark gloves with white trim at the wrists, and her dark hair is pulled back, with a braid pulled across the top of her head and another braid wrapped at the side of head.

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Rigby, Elizabeth. “Review: Vanity Fair; Jane Eyre; Governesses Benevolent Institution: Report for 1847Quarterly Review, Vol.
84
, pp. 153-85.
Brandl, Alois. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the English Romantic School. Translator Rigby, Elizabeth, John Murray, 1887.
Brandl, Alois. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the English Romantic School. Translator Rigby, Elizabeth, Haskell House, 1966.
Rigby, Elizabeth. “The Art of Dress”. Quarterly Review, Vol.
79
, p. 372.
Rigby, Elizabeth. “The Englishwoman at School”. Quarterly Review, Vol.
145-146
, pp. 40-69.
Jameson, Anna Brownell, and Elizabeth Rigby. The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art. London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864, 2 vols.
Passavant, Johann David. Tour of a German Artist in England. Translator Rigby, Elizabeth, Saunders and Otley, 1836, 2 vols.
Passavant, Johann David. Tour of a German Artist in England. Translator Rigby, Elizabeth, Garland, 1978, 2 vols.