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Emilie Isabel Barrington [also known as Mrs. Barrington] was born Emilie Isabel Wilson in London, England on 18 November 1841. She received her early education at schools on the Continent. In 1868 she married Russell Henry Barrington (1840-1916). She worked as an artist, biographer and novelist. Her training as an artist seems to have consisted of... See more

Barrington, Emilie Isabel, 1841–1933 | Art UK

Allenwood was in some respects the female equivalent of Groton: a pioneering school that offered the daughters of England’s elite a liberal education emphasizing social responsibility and personal independence.

Jean Edward Smith • FDR

he employed a German governess for his first two sons, Freddie and Charles.

Jane Mayer • Dark Money

Edith Sitwell.

Andrew O'Hagan • Mayflies: A MAJOR BBC DRAMA FOR CHRISTMAS 2022

Yet in one respect they were of more value far than hers: the king bought Rosamond's with his money; Agnes's father made hers with his hands.

George MacDonald • The Complete Fairy Tales

That Anne should herself be noticed she felt to be astounding, and she’d received Lorna’s first attention with a confused shyness that looked aloof.

Sarah Perry • Enlightenment

I met Margot Edwards during 1948 in Matcham Skipper's Studio behind the Russell Street police station, and it was only a short time afterwards that I became her lover and a constant visitor to her in a loft in Ivanhoe. Margot was only eighteen years old and one of the most beautiful girls I had ever seen. She had done an art course at the Royal... See more

Alistair Knox

Just back from four days at Asheham and one at Charleston. I sit waiting for Leonard to come in, with a brain still running along the railway lines, which unfits it for reading. But oh, dear, what a lot I’ve got to read! The entire works of Mr James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, so as to compare them with the entire works of Dickens and Mrs

Virginia Woolf • A Writer's Diary (1918 - 1941) - Complete edition

Clifton Pugh: Portrait of Margot Knox 1958

I met Margot Edwards during 1948 in Matcham Skipper's Studio behind the Russell Street police station, and it was only a short time afterwards that I became her lover and a constant visitor to her in a loft in Ivanhoe. Margot was only eighteen years old and one of the most beautiful girls I had ever seen.... See more