![]() ![]() ![]() Knowles claims that his evidence came from letters from Wollstonecraft to Fuseli, letters that Fuseli had refused to return when Wollstonecraft asked him to. Knowles's biography was published six years after Fuseli's death. ![]() Note that the Vermont piece, but not the Knowles or Pernell ones, mentions that the cup was breached! John Knowles, Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Vol 1, 1831, p.164-5. ![]() These notions had their influence also in regard to the conveniences of life for when the Prince Talleyrand was in this country, in a low condition with regard to his pecuniary affairs, and visited her, they drank their tea, and the little wine they took, indiscriminately from tea-cups. Fuseli found in her (what he most disliked in woman) a philosophical sloven: her usual dress being a habit of coarse cloth, such as is now worn by milk-women, black worsted stockings, and a beaver hat, with her hair hanging lank about her shoulders. Wondering where Pennell had gotten the anecdote from, I asked the Twitter Wollstonecraft community, and got the following story:įirst Emma Clery, specified the source of the Pennell reference: John Knowles, the 19th century biographer of the man who rejected Wollstonecraft in 1792, Henri Fuseli, described her as a 'sloven ', citing the breached teacup anecdote as evidence. She is said to have once entertained the Marquis de Talleyrand in her lodgings on George Street, and served him tea, then wine, in a breached teacup (Elizabeth Pennell, 1885. Mary Wollstonecraft was not known for her dedication to domesticity. ![]()
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