qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Standard Name: Reynolds, Sir Joshua
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Mary Palmer | The original Dictionary of National Biography called MP
's writing as represented in these texts the best piece of literature in the vernacular of Devon. |
| Residence | Frances Reynolds | The year after their father died, Joshua Reynolds
settled at Plymouth Dock in Devon, and Frances
and his next youngest sister left the family home at Plympton Erle in Devon to live with him there. Wendorf, Richard. Sir Joshua Reynolds. Harvard University Press, 1996. 71 |
| Residence | Frances Reynolds | FR
's style of living changed radically when she left Devon to live with her elder brother Joshua
in St Martin's Lane, London. Reynolds, Sir Joshua. The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Editors Ingamells, John and John Edgcumbe, Yale University Press, 2000. 13 Wendorf, Richard. Sir Joshua Reynolds. Harvard University Press, 1996. 71 |
| Textual Features | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
says she has often found that my own selection of relevant detail has lighted on facts passed over as insignificant by other writers. Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Private Life of Mrs. Siddons. V. Gollancz, 1933. 11 |
| Textual Features | Margaret Bingham Countess Lucan | Although Sir Joshua Reynolds
supposed MBCL
insufficiently skilled as an artist to manage history painting, Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols. 8: 238 |
| Textual Features | Georgina Munro | A debauched earl is the narrator of this novel, which, typically for the genre, is peopled by characters from the gentry and the upper classes. Athenæum. J. Lection. 744 (1842):110 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Textual Production | Mary Robinson | MR
published a Monody to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 2nd ser. 5 (1792): 349 |
| Textual Production | Mary Palmer | MP
wrote at a time when, as Martyn Wakelin
puts it, standard English had become a norm that drove out other dialects except in local speech and in literary works whose authors were after local... |
| Textual Production | Mary Palmer | The learned gloss on her words by James F. Palmer
, by contrast, occupied 75 pages and was not reliable. It asserts that in MP
's like a daver'd rose the adjective means something like... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | Many of the poems continue the autobiographical mode of her first two books, with fawning gratitude for favourable reception as a writer. Many are elegiac, lamenting or commemorating people and places that had been dear... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | This work has been valued chiefly for its anecdotes of Samuel Johnson
and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. LMH
closes the volume on the name of Reynolds
(printed in honorific capitals), in an implicit tribute to... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Mary Palmer | MP
's financial position as a comfortably married woman enabled her to assist members of her birth family. Having backed her brother Joshua
's educational travels in Italy in 1749-52, she was in 1775 balancing... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Frances Reynolds | FR
was to all appearances dependent on her brother
for money. He enjoyed the use of his self-made wealth, and commissioned, for instance, a particularly eye-catching carriage, heavily carved and gilded, with the four seasons... |
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