Joseph Mallord William Turner

During this time MAW led a full social life: she and her husband held up to three dinner parties a week during the London season, and her Thursday afternoon salon became immensely popular with the...

In London, she met theCarlyles and John Gibson Lockhart 's daughter Charlotte . She was also introduced to her future husband, Charles Eastlake . She called on Agnes Strickland and Maria Edgeworth . Lord Shaftesbury

She had already begun to move in fashionable circles, and became friendly with Lady Caroline Lamb , Lady Cork , and painters James Northcote and Sir Joshua Reynolds . In 1802, in London and...

In Rome they got to know the painter Charles Eastlake , and through him other artists, such as John Jackson and J. W. M. Turner . MC 's developing interest in the pre-Renaissance art of...

She remained deeply interested in art (she frequented galleries and developed a deep appreciation for Blake , Turner , and the more contemporary Renoir , and Monet ). She also regularly attended the theatre.

Having begun to publish in the 1830s, when he became a champion of J. W. Turner against established styles of painting, JR made his name and created a sensation with the appearance of the first...

MRM advised an artist named George Baxter on scenes to engrave as woodcuts for a Whittaker edition of Our Village, probably 1835. Further complete editions, selections, and translations into many languages followed...

MC published The Devil's Motor, a novel with illustrations supplied by artist Arthur Severn , whom she thought of as a second Turner.

Nicholas Lezard used this collection as an opportunity to celebrate Jennings's many registers and many modes. These, he notes, run from the deceptively simple, Wendy-Cope -like account of a child's disappointment that Piccadilly Circus had...

Another poem here, The Quern of the Giants, reworks the Icelandic legend of Fenia and Menia, two giant sisters forced into turning millstones for King Frodi. Their endless work greatly benefits their captor until...

She includes poems for poets, artists, and thinkers: George Herbert , Charles Causley , Philip Larkin , J. M. W. Turner , Caravaggio , Chardin , Goya , Hume , and Descartes . A sequence...