A view of life in Jane Austen’s time
With all the excitement this week over the auction of the Rice portrait, we were intrigued when Alert Janeite Rob Hardy sent us a link about an upcoming title that really has nothing much to do with Jane Austen specifically, but can be a sort of visual interpretation of her time period. A Picture History of the Grenville Family of Rosedale House by Mary Yelloly, “Eight and a half years old,” is a collection of watercolor paintings by a very young lady painted in the 1820s, and seems like a charming volume indeed.
April 16th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Very nice indeed. Reminds me of Diana Sperling’s watercolours of Regency life in ‘Mrs Hurst Dancing’ by G. Mingay.