Emilia Frances Dilke

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Lady Emilia Frances Strong Dilke (1840-1904) was an English author, born at Ilfracombe. She became a contributor to the Saturday Review in 1864 and subsequently was for many years fine-art critic of the Academy.

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In addition to numerous articles in periodicals, she published:

  • The Renaissance of Art in France (1879)
  • a biography of Lord Leighton (1881, in Dumas's "Modern Artists Series")
  • Art in the Modern State (1884)
  • French Painters of the Eighteenth Century (1899)
  • French Architects and Sculptors of the Eighteenth Century (1900)
  • French Engravers and Draftsmen of the XVIIIth Century (1902)
  • Book of the Spiritual Life, with memoir of the author by Sir C. W. Dilke (1905)

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