… and left it to them in his will. Mary not only edited his works but also made herself a defender of his posthumous reputation. The sculptor Anne Seymour Damer (1749-1828), repeatedly accused of harbouring ‘sapphic desires’ for women 12 …
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… It had to be done, she declared, indeed it was part of a married woman’s ‘Business’, any wife who cared about her reputation and her husband’s constancy had to invite company, but for her own part, she could not see why people enjoyed …