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Emily Shore and mother : Discourses on Art

'Writing an addendum entitled "The Interruptions" to the copious journal which she kept in the early 1830s, Emily Shore gave a wry picture of the difficulties attendant on reading Sir Joshua Reynolds' "Discourses" together with her mother one morning. First they were interrupted by the housemaid ... then by a man servant ... then by the cook ... by the nursemaid ... by a maid ... by Emily's younger brother ... by the man servant announcing a visitor.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Shore and mother     Print: Book

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