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SUMMARY:NYC | In the Footsteps of Jane Austen: A Writer's Love of Bath with Devoney Looser
DESCRIPTION:Lyme Park \nIn the Footsteps of Jane Austen: A Writer’s Love of Bath \nBath\, England\, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries was a fraught\, fascinating place\, not only because of the supposed healing powers of its waters\, but because of its notoriety as a marriage market. \nThe popular spa town was imagined as a magical destination. Day-to-day life there\, however\, could fall short of the ideal\, as Jane Austen’s fiction so vividly describes. Emma’s jilted Mr. Elton finds himself an equally odious wife there\, with shocking speed. Persuasion’s heroine Anne Elliot\, we’re told\, “disliked Bath.” Her sour older sister mistakenly predicts that “nobody will want” Anne in Bath\, but there Anne eventually does find herself in love and beloved (again). \n\nIn Northanger Abbey\, heroine Catherine Morland and her circle hope Bath will supply the “adventures” she lacks in her home village. Catherine isn’t disappointed\, although her early experiences involve days of “looking at everybody and speaking to no one\,” and many of the friends she makes prove false ones. Thanks to these enduring stories\, scenes\, and characters\, today’s Bath has become a destination city for “Janeites”\, who retrace the Austen’s steps in Assembly Rooms\, concert halls\, and the famous Pump Room. \nSewing table in Boudoir at Saltram ©National Trust Images Andreas von Einsiedel \nBut what was Bath really like for a young\, unmarried woman in this era\, whether in search of adventure\, authorship\, marriage\, love\, or all four? Few letters survive from Jane Austen during the time she lived in Bath from 1801-05. Scholars also debate whether she was happy or miserable. \n\nIn her lecture\, Devoney Looser will revisit the question of Austen’s happiness in Bath focusing on the years leading up to the Regency period. She will show Bath’s many attractions and obstacles\, as seen not only through the famous novelist’s eyes\, but in the accounts of other writers who visited during this transformational era. \nDevoney Looser\, Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University\, is the author or editor of 11 books\, most recently the biography Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters\, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës (Bloomsbury US\, 2022). She is also the author of The Making of Jane Austen (2017) and the editor of The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes (2019). Looser\, a Guggenheim Fellow and an NEH Public Scholar\, has published essays in The Atlantic\, New York Times\, Salon\, Slate\,TLS\, and The Washington Post. Her series of 24\, 30-minute lectures on Austen is available through The Great Courses and Audible. Her next book\, Wild for Austen\, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2025. In addition to being a quirky book nerd\, she plays roller derby under the name ‘Stone Cold Jane Austen’.
URL:https://www.royal-oak.org/event/nyc-in-the-footsteps-of-jane-austen-a-writers-love-of-bath-with-devoney-looser/
LOCATION:The General Society Library\, 20 W. 44th Street\, New York City\, 10036\, United States
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SUMMARY:NYC | Cotswold Manors and Gardens with Paula Henderson
DESCRIPTION:Cotswold Manors and Gardens \nThe Cotswold hills with their mellow stone cottages\, elegant manor houses and imposing castles contain some of the most important historic gardens in England. A virtual history of English gardens can be found in Gloucestershire\, parts of Oxfordshire\, and Warwickshire. Although little survives of the Roman and medieval periods\, some very early gardens remain: Thornbury Castle and Horton Court are two remarkable early 16th century gardens. From the 17th century\, the restored gardens at Westbury Court are well known\, while ghosts of the late 17th-century gardens at Dyrham Park are more challenging to discover. \nThe 18th century is represented in the poetic garden at Rousham\, William Kent’s best surviving landscape\, as well as in Capability Brown’s most famous garden at Blenheim Palace. Quirkier examples of the English landscape are found at Painswick and Sezincote. \nModern gardens\, too\, are impressive: the Arts and Crafts garden at Snowshill and especially Major Lawrence Johnston’s Hidcote Manor\, which became a model for so many later garden designs. This lecture covers the history of the English garden\, using both famous and little-known gardens\, all set in the most unspoiled part of England. \nPaula Henderson\n\nPaula Henderson has degrees in art history (University of Chicago\, M.A.) and Ph.D. in architectural history from the Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London). She lectures widely in Britain (where she lived for 43 years) and the United States and has published over seventy articles on English Houses and their settings. Her first book\, The Tudor House and Garden: Architecture and Landscape in the 16th and 17th Centuries (published by Yale University Press)\, won the Berger Prize for the outstanding contribution to the history of British art 2005. Treehouses (co-authored with Adam Mornement) was published by Francis Lincoln\, also in 2005. She is currently completing books on London gardens in the age of Shakespeare and on the Landscape as Art. \nShe taught courses for the Courtauld Institute of Art Institute Art for many years and\, most recently for the V& A Museum. She has lectures for the Paul Mellon Center for British Art\, the Architectural Association\, both Oxford and Cambridge Universities\, Birkbeck College\, Christie’s Education\, The Inchbald School of Design\, the V&A Museum\, the Tate Gallery\, The Garden History Society\, Sir John Soane’s Museum\, Sotheby’s Educational Studies\, and many others. She led tours for the Courtauld Institute to Florence (‘Gardens of the Medici’) Debyshire (‘Elizabethan Architecture’) and the Cotswolds (‘Gardens of the Cotswolds’). While living in England\, she also traveled to the United States to lecture for the Society of Architectural Historians\, The Garden Club of America\, The Royal Oak Foundation\, and the Williamsburg Institute. She is a Fellow of Society of Antiquaries of London and now splits her time between Nantucket\, MA and Williamsburg\, VA. \nThursday\, April 18 | 6:00 p.m. (ET) Reception following \nThe General Society Library\, 20 W. 44th Street\, NYC (Bet. 5th and 6th)
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SUMMARY:NYC | Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII with Jane Marguerite Tippett
DESCRIPTION:Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII \nThursday\, April 11 | 6:00 p.m. (ET) Reception and book signing following\nThe General Society Library\, 20 W. 44th Street\, NYC (Bet. 5th and 6th) \n\nMany people are familiar with the history of the Duke of Windsor\, the former King Edward VIII who gave up the British throne to marry the twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson. Although an-often-repeated story\, historian and author Jane Marguerite Tippett brings new insight through her astonishing discovery of the first and unedited drafts of Edward’s memoir A King’s Story\, written with the assistance of Life magazine journalist Charles J.V. Murphy. Preserved in Murphy’s archive\, but overlooked by previous Royal scholars\, Tippett uncovered the private manuscript that Edward created between 1947 and 1951. \nShe also discovered hundreds of pages of interviews Murphy conducted with the couple in 1954 when he was working on the Duchess’s biography. In her lecture\, Tippett will explore the significance of this material and how through Edward’s writing\, we gain an entirely new understanding of his life as Prince of Wales as well as the momentous events of his brief 11-month reign. Tippett will scrutinize the ways in which Edward’s writings shift our understanding of his importance in the history of the 20th-century British monarchy and explore how this material may change people’s perspective on the significance of his royal career. \n\nJane Marguerite Tippett\n\nJane Tippett is a historian and archivist. She graduated from University of Delaware with a BA in French\, History and English Literature. She received her MSt. in History of Art from Wadham College\, Oxford\, where she wrote her dissertation on the centrality of provenance in the contemporary fine art auction market. Since graduating she has worked as a private archivist to high-net-worth families and interior design firms in New York City\, Boston\, and London. Once A King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII (Hodder & Stoughton\, October 2023) is her first book. Her next book\, Monsieur\, which will be published in May 2024\, is a survey of the photographic work of Patrick O’Higgins\, the biographer and longtime companion of Helena Rubinstein. \n\nOr Rent the Recording!
URL:https://www.royal-oak.org/event/nyc-once-a-king-the-lost-memoir-of-edward-viii-with-jane-marguerite-tippett/
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SUMMARY:Awaking the Sleeping Beauty: Edward Burne-Jones and his Art
DESCRIPTION:When hosting in-person events\, Royal Oak must comply with current state and local laws regarding vaccine card requirement to gain admittance.  \n\n Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898)\, the son of a humble Birmingham picture framer\, became perhaps the most exceptional and versatile figure of the English Aesthetic movement. He excelled as a painter\, draughtsman\, designer of furniture\, stained glass\, and tapestry\, and succeeded in spreading his reputation well beyond England to the Continent and America. Nowhere is this more evident than in Burne-Jones’s Briar Rose paintings\, an extraordinary series of works\, which occupied the artist for more than half his lifetime. In 1864\, Burne-Jones was commissioned to design a set of ceramic tiles for artist Myles Birket Foster’s house\, The Hill\, in Witley\, Surrey. The theme was to be the Briar Rose\, the “Sleeping Beauty” story derived from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s 1842 poem\, The Day-dream\, which evoked England’s medieval past. \n“She sleeps\, nor dreams\, but ever dwells\,” wrote Tennyson\, “a perfect form in perfect rest.” These lines perfectly paralleled the Aesthetic aims of Burne-Jones\, and of his friend William Morris\, to create “Art for art’s sake”—an ideal object\, with no greater purpose than its own beauty\, displayed within a setting distinctly suited to itself. These extraordinary\, vibrant tiles\, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum\, evidently pleased Burne-Jones\, as he returned to the theme in 1869\, with three small-format Briar Rose paintings. Four years later\, Burne-Jones revisited the subject yet again with a larger scale series of paintings for the saloon at Buscot Park\, Faringdon. \nJoin Country Life and Vanity Fair contributor Patrick Monahan to discover the Sleeping Beauties of one of Victorian England’s artistic geniuses—paintings which echo a distant\, enchanted past. \nPatrick Monahan\nPatrick Monahan is a writer and independent art advisor\, specializing in British paintings\, drawings\, and sculpture from the eighteenth century to the present. A native New Yorker\, he is consulted by collectors and museums on both sides of the Atlantic\, including the Museo de Arte de Ponce\, Puerto Rico.\nHis written work appears in Country Life and Vanity Fair\, as well as in the exhibition catalogue “Flaming June: the making of an icon\,” Leighton House\, London\, 2016. He holds an Mphil from the University of Cambridge as well as a BA from the University of Chicago\, both in art history. He lives and works in New York City\, with regular visits to London. \nInstagram: @thepatrickmonahan \n\nLIVE\nWednesday May 16\, | 6:00 p.m. (ET)\nThe General Society Library\, NYC\n$35 members; $40 non-members and guests \n\nRENT\nFrom Thursday\, May 19 to Monday\, May 30 \nRent the recorded lecture to watch at your leisure\n$20 members; $25 non-members and guests
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SUMMARY:Entertaining in Style: Nancy Astor and Nancy Lancaster
DESCRIPTION:When hosting in-person events\, Royal Oak must comply with state and local COVID policies.  \n \n\nTwo American born women and cousins\, politician Nancy Astor and interior designer Nancy Lancaster\, transformed 20th century British culture with their inspiration in creating the English country house style\, as well as their gracious and sophisticated method of entertaining.  Their descendants\, designer Jane Churchill and photographer Emily Astor will discuss their relatives and show previously unseen family photographs from Cliveden\, Nancy Astor’s country house\, as well as several homes owned by Nancy Lancaster. \nTheir talk\, based on their new book Entertaining in Style: Nancy Astor and Nancy Lancaster showcases both Nancy’s inspirations for the perfect entertainment.They will highlight glamourous menus from the private Mirador recipe collection (Nancy’s Virginia family estate) as well as from materials from Astor’s and Lancaster’s archives. \nBoth Lancaster and Astor gave parties with superb food combining classic English dishes with American Southern classics such as fried chicken and Pullman Salad. Churchill and Astor will also illustrate interiors and table settings featuring the family’s original china\, silver\, and décor. From menu cards\, table diagrams\, and private letters featuring witty repartee from Lancaster and Astor\, the authors were able to reconstruct who came for dinner as well as what they ate. \nJoin Royal Oak at a presentation as we explore the legacy of two great women who left a lasting mark on English social history and style.  As Emily Astor said\, “both Nancys disrupted English menus just as much as they revolutionised women’s rights in politics and the workplace. But they did so with style\, glamour\, and buckets of laughter.” The presentation will be followed by Q&A with Carl Raymond\, host of The Gilded Gentleman History Podcast(thegildedgentleman.com) \nJane Churchill\nJane Churchill\, of Jane Churchill interiors\, is the great great niece of Nancy Astor and great niece of Nancy Lancaster. Emily Astor\, photographer and author\, is Nancy Astor’s granddaughter. Carl Raymond\, lecturer and writer is the host of The Gilded Gentleman history podcast\, which focuses on the social and culinary history of America’s Gilded Age\, France’s Belle Epoque and England’s late Victorian and Edwardian eras. \n​ \nIN-PERSON\nFriday\, April 22 | 6:00 p.m. (ET) \nThe General Society Library\, NYC\nReception & book signing following\n$35 members; $40 non-members and guests \nRENT\nFrom Saturday\, April 23 to Wednesday\, May 4 \nRent the recorded lecture to watch at your leisure\n$20 members; $25 non-members and guests
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