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Laura Theresa Epps 1852-1909 is in Painters.
Laura Theresa Epps. "Battledore and Shuttlecock".
Laura Theresa Epps. "A Carol".
Laura Theresa Epps. "The Bible Lesson".
Laura Theresa Epps. "The Tea Party".
On 16th April 1852 Laura Theresa Epps was born.
On 3rd January 1863 [her future husband] Lawrence Alma-Tadema (age 26) and Marie-Pauline Gressin-Dumoulin were married at the City Hall in Antwerp.
Letters of Christina Rossetti. 56 Euston Square, N.W.
Friday afternoon, 14th. [May 1869]1
My dear Miss Boyd (age 44)
Thank you warmly for so exceedingly kind an invitation, concerning which I will only put forward one regret, that Mrs Epps [Note. Not clear who Mrs Epps is since Laura Theresa Epps (age 17) didn't marry [her future husband] Lawrence Alma-Tadema (age 33) until 1871] should lose what might so have refreshed her both in mind and in body. And indeed, if I may, I will say that should it after all turn out that she could visit lovely Penkill you will without hesitation let me know your altered plans to which I shall most readily conform mine. On the other hand if I go, it will be a special indulgence to travel with the Scotts [Note. William Bell Scott (age 58) and Letitia Margery Norquoy] and as you give me so generous a latitude I will even feel housed at the Castle until a companion offers with whom to start south again;-the journey being somewhat formidably lengthy. But this, of course, only in case it brings my visit within not altogether unreasonable dimensions. How very kind you are to me, and how much I should like to make my gratitude obvious to you. Knowing what a Dear Mrs Scott is, I think she will kindly let me know her plans in due course: meanwhile I expect to run down to Gloucester next week on a little visit to my Uncle if he will have me, but to be up again in time for Penkill.
My love, please, to Mrs Scott, and a kindred sentiment to Mr Scott. We saw Gabriel (age 41) last night, but I know nothing at all about his summer plans.2
My Mother (age 69) desires her most cordial remembrances to you, and adds her thanks to mine on my behalf.
Always and affectionately yours
Christina G. Rossetti (age 38).
I expect you will find me quite a different order of being this year as regards walking, and I mean to trim up my old hat for possible croquet.
Note 1. Endorsed: "1867." CGR returned to Penkill in 1869, from 9 June to 22 July, not in 1867.
In July 1871 Lawrence Alma-Tadema (age 35) and Laura Theresa Epps (age 19) were married.
After July 1871. Catherine Emily Brown (age 20). Portrait of Laura Theresa Epps (age 19).
1876. Laura Theresa Epps (age 23). "World of Dreams".
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
1876. [her husband] Lawrence Alma-Tadema (age 39). Portrait of Laura Theresa Epps (age 23).
Before 1878. Laura Theresa Epps (age 25). "The Persistent Reader".
1879 to 1880. Laura Theresa Epps (age 26). "With a Babe in the Woods".
1881. Laura Theresa Epps (age 28). "A Looking out o'Window, Sunshine".
1887. Laura Theresa Epps (age 34). "Always Welcome".
Around 1891. [her husband] Lawrence Alma-Tadema (age 54). "Interrupted". Portrait of Laura Theresa Epps (age 38).
1896. Laura Theresa Epps (age 43). "Love's Beginning".
1897. Laura Theresa Epps (age 44). "A Knock at the Door".
1898. Laura Theresa Epps (age 45). "At the Doorway".
1904. Laura Theresa Epps (age 51). "The Pledge".
On 15th August 1909 Laura Theresa Epps (age 57) died.
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The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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On 25th June 1912 [her former husband] Lawrence Alma-Tadema (age 76) died at Kaiserhof Spa, Wiesbaden, Germany where he had travelled with his daughter Anna for treatment of his stomach ulcers. He was buried in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral [Map].