Art historian and author/compiler of 𝙂𝙚𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚 𝙍𝙤𝙢𝙣𝙚𝙮: 𝘼 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙪𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙋𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 tells us what Romney got up to during his summer visits to William Hayley at his house in Eartham, Sussex.

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Leading Blake Scholar and editor of @blakequarterly.bsky.social Morton D. Paley discusses William Hayley’s poetry.

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Art historian and author/compiler of 𝙂𝙚𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚 𝙍𝙤𝙢𝙣𝙚𝙮: 𝘼 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙪𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙋𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 explains what makes Romney such an important artist.

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Me. Yesterday. Feel v lucky that my body can do this.

(Video shows short woman wearing pink toe shoes jumping slightly more than half her height)

Part 2 of the video shared in yesterday’s post re @fbls.bsky.social’s essay on on erased 18thC author Eliza Hayley bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor in bit.ly/HayleyEssays

@fbls.bsky.social observes how “Scholarly references to Hayley are … always in relation to her husband, hardly ever recognising her own intellectual merit.” A pity, as Hayley had plenty to say… bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor in bit.ly/HayleyEssays #lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory #womenswriting