… to Farington’s information (from the painter Robert Smirke) that the first Mrs Opie had already had two illegitimate children when Opie married her – something of which Opie was equally unaware. The children were raised elsewhere but when the son was arrested in his teens for stealing a watch and incarcerated in …
… Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, 125 G971 786 Copy 1 Image George Cruikshank, Sales by Auction! - or Provident Children Disposing of their Deceased Mother, 1819. Scanned from Baker, Kenneth, George IV: A Life in Caricature. London: …
… of Mme d’Arblay , Thomas Babington Macaulay was astonished, not to say shocked, at the fact that Dr. Burney allowed his children ‘to mix freely with those whom butlers and waiting maids call vulgar’, but the noblemen who also attended these …
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