Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… , admiring the landscapes of Matlock, in Derbyshire, and Tunbridge Wells, in Kent. She found Brighton ‘lovely’ (678) and Bath ‘noble and picturesque’ (679). But for all that, her writings once again leave us with the impression of a woman … to her brother that at Tunbridge Wells, ‘the innumerable evening assemblies were tremendously tedious’ (678). As for Bath , she wrote, ‘I stayed three weeks in Bath. I had been given so many assurances I would thoroughly enjoy myself there, that I expected to find the delights of …
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