The first biography of Anne Damer since 1908, The Life of Anne Damer: Portrait of a Regency Artist, by Jonathan Gross, draws on previously unpublished letters to explore the life and legacy of England’s first significant female sculptor. This biography will interest historians of Georgian, England, and readers in the fine arts, literature, and history.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. "Peerless Ailesbury"
2. Marriage to John Damer
3. "Witches 'Round the Cauldron"
4. Disaster, Death of John Damer
5. "Too Strictly Right Even to be Beloved"
6.The "Widow's Joys": Four Satires of Anne Damer
7. The Sylph, Rehabilitation, and Damer's First Trip to Italy
8. Damer's Second Trip to Italy
9. Park Place and Hieroglyphic Tales
10. Theatricals at Richmond House
11. Damer and Charles Hotham
12. Menage a Trois: Walpole , the Berrys, and Anne Damer, 143
13. Departure for Lisbon
14. Damer's Return to England
15: Anne Damer as Sculptor: An Overview
16: Damer as Sculptor, a Catalogue Raisonee
17. Anne Damer and Mary Berry on Literature
18. Damer in Portugal: Beckford, Byron, and Napoleon
19. Damer's Return from Lisbon, "A Proselyte to Painting"
20. Damer and Walpole: "Tis a Debt I would Always Be Paying"
21. Damer and Berry: "The Thread that Holds Minds Together"
22. Mary Berry and Charles O'Hara
23. Recovery and Inheritance of Strawberry Hill
24. Fashionable Friends and Belmour
25. Death of Anne Damer's Mother
26. "Infallible Tokens of Affection": Damer and Princess Caroline
27. Damer and Susan Ferrier's Marriage
28. Anne Damer and India
