Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake: With Facsimiles of Her Drawings and a Portrait: Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture

Later known as Lady Eastlake, the writer Elizabeth Rigby (1809-93) travelled widely in her early years, and subsequently moved in the highest literary and artistic circles. After an illness in 1827 she was taken abroad to recover, and her encounters with European art led to her writing career. In 1849, she married the painter Charles Eastlake, who became the director of the National Gallery and president of the Royal Academy. Continuing to write, especially for the Quarterly Magazine, on literature and art, she spent part of each year touring galleries and private collections across Europe. This engaging two-volume work of 1895, edited by her nephew and full of shrewd judgements on art and on people, is compiled from her journals and letters. Volume 1 describes Eastlake's early life: the extracts from her journals end in 1854 with her impressions of the reopening of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham.

Publisher: Cambridge Library Collection

Published: United Kingdom, 24 April 2014

Format: Paperback, 366 pages

Age Range: 15+

Other Information: 9 b/w illus.

Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 2.1 centimeters (0.47 kg)

Writer: Elizabeth Eastlake, Charles Eastlake Smith

Table of ContentsPreface; 1. 1809-42; 2. 1840-2; 3. 1842-3; 4. 1843; 5. 1843 (cont.); 6. 1843-4; 7. 1844; 8. 1844 (cont.); 9. 1844-5; 10. 1845-6; 11. 1846; 12. 1846-7; 13. 1847-9; 14. 1849; 15. 1850; 16. 1850-2; 17. 1852; 18. 1852-4.

Promotional InformationThis two-volume 1895 work is compiled from the journals and letters of writer and art critic Elizabeth Eastlake (1809-93).