Text includes drawings, photographs, literary extracts, family tree and index.
This book starts with Anne Gliddon s unfinished A Family Record of 1869. Around that core it builds a lively account of an interesting and talented family in London nearly 200 years ago. Not afraid to be unconventional, they mixed with Romantic and radical artists, writers and musicians. Through research in England, Australia and New Zealand, Wendy Norman has uncovered facts and stories about members of the wider family circle including poet and essayist Leigh Hunt, newspaper editor Thornton Hunt, portrait painter Samuel Laurence, South Australian pioneer John Morphett, and Egyptologist George R Gliddon. To these Wendy has added drawings by Anne Gliddon, photographs, and extracts which provide a fascinating glimpse of a family actively pursuing their own destiny, often contrary to the norms of their contemporaries.