Catherine Read

Standard Name: Read, Catherine

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Charlotte Lennox
She met Sarah Fielding at Richardson's house, and became friendly also with Henry Fielding , Saunders Welch (the philanthropist, who later offered her employment), and Lord Orrery . She was presumably the Mrs Lenox with...
Leisure and Society Frances Brooke
The painter Catherine Read , another friend of FB , did a portrait of her which was engraved by Marianne Bovili in 1771.
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
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Leisure and Society Elizabeth Carter
EC had her portrait painted by the artist Catherine Read (at least the third painter to represent her). It was commissioned by Elizabeth Montagu .
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Leisure and Society Catharine Macaulay
During her early years at Bath, CM gathered a like-minded circle and gave elegant dinner parties;
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
84
she sat for her portrait several times (once apparently to Gainsborough , though this painting is lost)...

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