My pick of the best of the Georgian web includes a really excellent series on travel from Wicked William: Resources for study of the life and times of William-Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley (1788-1857). Be sure to check out the earlier posts too.
My concluding post on Regency travel looks at the golden age of stage coaching https://t.co/LZg1vxwxmJ pic.twitter.com/EIGiN50XWj
— greg roberts (@D_Profundis) May 4, 2016
On the anniversary of Royal Academy founding member Mary Moser’s death:
Mary Moser died #onthisday in 1819. Here’s how she became a founding member of the RA: https://t.co/613eiO8Z6e pic.twitter.com/LvtaGKFmvG
— Royal Academy (@royalacademy) May 2, 2016
I am a big fan of the Journal of Art in Society, and this just adds to my admiration:
A painting that depicts “enlightenment” in more ways than one (Joseph Wright, 1766). More at https://t.co/ByScJy3RqC pic.twitter.com/x5SudvxySR
— J. of Art in Society (@artinsociety) May 3, 2016
The Romanticism blog had an interesting piece on Mary Wollstonecraft and men:
Latest on the blog – Mary Wollstonecraft and…. Men https://t.co/M2RstRXgvk pic.twitter.com/blml2yHYBs
— The Romanticism blog (@Wordsworthians) May 3, 2016
and, finally, just because I like this picture…
I give you the St Pancras Smallpox Hospital in 18th century #London. Here now stands King’s Cross railway station. pic.twitter.com/L7KmsXA9dw
— Sir William Davenant (@SirWilliamD) May 1, 2016
More soon.
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