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the letters of elizabeth rigby lady eastlake
p this year marks the bicentennial of the english writer translator critic and amateur artist elizabeth rigby lady eastlake 1809 93 . the letters of elizabeth rigby lady eastlake brings together a comprehensive collection of her surviving correspondence and reveals significant new material about this extraordinary victorian figure . rigby wrote on a variety of subjects most notably reviews of works and authors such as jane eyre vanity fair ruskin coleridge and madame de stael as well as art related criticism including one of the earliest critical texts on photography . her lively correspondence here shows how this well connected woman played such an important role in the victorian art world .