George Vertue

Standard Name: Vertue, George

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Leisure and Society Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
She had her portrait painted again and again, often in several copies as gifts to friends. Jervas painted her as a shepherdess (a style in which he specialised) before her marriage. Jean-Baptiste Vanmour painted her...
Publishing Elizabeth Singer Rowe
This may have been in print before the end of 1738. It had a frontispiece portrait of ESR by George Vertue , which marks her fame with the attributes of crown, laurel, and trumpet.
Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang, 1973.
17
Publishing Eliza Haywood
This may have been an expanded version of the unpublished collection The Danger of Giving Way to Passion, in Five Exemplary Novels.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
57
Volume one features an elegant portrait of EH by Jacques Parmentier
Publishing Eliza Haywood
It is not clear whether a first edition was published and read out of existence; in any case, no known copy survives. It may be that the collection's first appearance was the one called the...

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