Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… to Joseph Farington , 10 a painter, who immediately fell under her charm, Helen Maria Williams , a writer and salonnière who frequently had her brother Étienne recite her poems, John Kemble, an actor, and prominent members of the … in the city parks where, she described, couples strolled about like ‘meandering shadows’ ( ibid. ). She pined for the salons of the Ancien Régime and for the popular soirées she had hosted, such as her famous ‘ souper grec ’ in January …
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