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John Gibson
Standard Name: Gibson, John
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|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Power Cobbe | Lloyd was the daughter of the squire of Rhagatt in Merionethshire, Wales; a maiden aunt in the family had been a friend of the Ladies of Llangollen (Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
)... |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Sandbach | This trip was probably important for the friendship between MS
and the Welsh sculptor John Gibson
(to whom her grandfather William Roscoe had already been a patron and friend). She and Gibson corresponded affectionately for... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Sandbach | Much of the poetry was inspired by the sculpture of her friend John Gibson
, to whom the book is dedicated. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Publishing | Isa Blagden | IB
published in the Cornhill Magazine a short, anecdotal memoir of the sculptor John Gibson
(1790-1866). Blagden, Isa. “Recollections of Gibson the Sculptor”. Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 17 , May 1868, pp. 540-6. 540 The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols. |
| Textual Features | Margaret Sandbach | It contains several religious poems, as well as three hymns. There are also sentimental poems written for friends and family. The Appeal of the Wounded Amazon was inspired by a sculpture by her friend John Gibson |
| Textual Features | Isa Blagden | A Model and a Wife has a principal cast of three: John Herbert, a solitary English painter living in Rome in ill health; Nell Spencer, a young English heiress (once an abandoned orphan in India... |
| Textual Production | Margaret Sandbach | Some time in 1851 MS
began writing down John Gibson
's autobiography from his dictation while he was a guest at her home. Their project was cut short when Gibson leftt the house after his... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
(as Lady Eastlake) edited the autobiographical Life of John Gibson
, R.A., Sculptor (who had been her personal friend). Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, 1895, p. Various pages. 2: 213 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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