Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake
With Facsimiles of her Drawings and a Portrait

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

Elizabeth Eastlake (Author), Charles Eastlake Smith (Edited by)

9781108074261, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 April 2014

366 pages, 9 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.47 kg

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.

Preface
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.

Subject Areas: The arts: general issues [AB]