2013-04-08 11:14
Hello friends of Vivienne!I am BOSWELL. I came to live in Gainsborough's house on 2nd March 2013 and very comfortable it is too. Only problem at the moment is the mistress: … Read More
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LIVING WITH MRS THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH IN THE CIRCUS, BATH, 18TH /21ST C
By VIVIENNE RAE-ELLIS
The following is a work in progress, to be published here in instalments. The manuscript has not been submitted to any publisher. References and bibliography will be published following the final chapter.
1) go to the Manuscript below right..
2) Start from the top entry..
3) Read down through the manuscript
2012-12-19 10:02
What is it about those major stores in Bath? Why do they refuse to cater for the older generation? Bath's population is, as elsewhere world-wide, AGEING. But look for a cha… Read More
2012-07-07 10:33
Today a third assistant came with Molly Maids to clean the house. Usually there are two, always the same team and one, as you will know if you have been reading my earlier account of M… Read More
2012-06-27 10:02
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2012-06-10 08:43
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2012-06-08 14:47
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2012-06-08 10:54
18th C/21st CSo today we glimpse the last of Margaret Gainsborough and her daughters, dressed in travelling cloaks, leaving through the front door of No. 17 The Circus, setting foot in the c… Read More
2012-06-08 10:45
18th CThe year 1774 was to prove most significant in the lives of all members of the Thomas Gainsborough family. In March that year Thomas requested a friend in London to select for hi… Read More
2012-06-08 09:55
18TH CGainsborough was a deeply moral and religious man according to art historian John Hayes. He was a Christian who trusted in Divine Providence and Mercy. In his later years i… Read More
2012-06-08 09:29
18th CAt forty-six and not in the best of health herself, Margaret had to cope with this husband of hers, currently moody and depressed. She was always concerned about his health as he… Read More
2012-06-08 08:50
18th CGainsborough exhibited an ambiguous attitude to the aristocracy. He claimed to hate them as fools on one hand, but claimed close friendships with various titled men on the other… Read More
2012-06-07 15:47
Henry Angelo claimed that at Gainsborough's house in Pall Mall a little later the painter told him he detested painting portraits and disliked the gentry who paid for them. He ad… Read More
2012-06-07 15:25
18th CMargaret Gaisnborough, now 46, faced the future as what then would be considered an elderly woman. Her household consisted of a husband, now a famous artist at the peak of his p… Read More
2012-05-04 11:44
21st CThe west country is drowning, nothing but rain, steely grey skies and blustering winds for the past two weeks. People look glum. The Circus is a moving mass of colourful um… Read More
2012-04-10 11:03
21st CReading the latest edition of the Bath Chronicle I loved this headline:"TODDLER STUCK IN CAKE TIN!20 MONTH OLD CHILD NEEDED HELP FROM THE FIRE BRIGADE AFTER HE GOT A CAKE TIN STUCK ARO… Read More
2012-03-31 16:46
18th CMargaret Gainsborough spent most of her life indoors. House management was time-consuming, tiring and tiresome. In winter especially, lighting and heating the house was a major issue… Read More
2012-03-31 16:28
18th CAt the time Margaret arrived to take charge of No. 17 The Circus in 1766 when the walls smelled of new paint and the wooden shutters had just been fitted at the windows, she was thirty… Read More
2012-03-30 10:36
21st CGainsborough's ghost was here again this week. No sooner had the MollyMaid team arrived to clean, entered the room Gainsborough used as his studio on the first floor overlooking the ga… Read More
2012-03-07 11:06
18TH CNevertheless it is worth remembering that the ruling classes in the 18th C enjoyed almost absolute power over the lower classes,being in a position to abuse them, had they chosen to do… Read More
2012-02-24 11:47
18th CAs a wife and mother Margaret Gainsborough was responsible for running this large house of five floors, looking after a husband whose health was always precarious, and two girls who we… Read More
2012-02-24 11:19
18th CSo, the Gainsborough girls returned from their boarding school in London in this lcimate of change, described earlier. They were now in their late teens, at an age which placed them di… Read More
2012-02-24 10:33
In the 21st C the leisure business has flourished beyond all expectations. Paying to keep fit and entertained is a mushrooming industry today, one which was foreshadowed by a similar movemen… Read More
2012-02-23 11:11
18th CIn Bath the Spring Gardens pleasure grounds were laid out on the opposite side of the River Avon, reached by ferry from South Parade. Taking breakfast there was a popular outing. One d… Read More
2012-02-23 10:40
18th CWhen Assembly rooms and pleasure gardens were introduced to cities and spa towns young Georgian gentle-women in their late teens were permitted to walk in town and stroll through publi… Read More
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