![]() ![]() See, for example Germaine Greer, The Obstacle Race: the Fortunes of Women Painters and their Work ( London: Secker and Warburg, 1979 ) ![]() This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. ![]() ![]() These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Their portrait celebrates the relationship between the arts along the lines of the classical humanist model of a harmonious society, capturing the moment when English women as a group first gained acceptance as powerful contributors to the artistic world. Together they formed an important network of intellectuals who were involved in a diverse range of cultural activities, from writing poetry, political pamphlets, educational and moral philosophy, legal essays, novels, plays and Shakespeare criticism to performing arias and exhibiting paintings. Samuel’s ‘muses’ were Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Griffith, Elizabeth Carter, Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Linley, Angelica Kauffman, Catharine Macaulay, Anna Barbauld and Hannah More (see Plate 1). The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain, painted by Richard Samuel and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1779, forms the central motif of this book, which considers the cultural history and group identity of women’s literary and intellectual activity between 17. ![]()
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