An entertaining account of an extraordinary cultural and historical event: - the establishment by one highly intelligent woman of a salon of the arts in a beautiful country house in Northumberland. Wallington Hall was remote from the major centres of artistic activity; such as London and Edinburgh. Yet Pauline Trevelyan single handedly made it the focus of High Victorian cultural life. Among those she attracted into her orbit were Ruskin; Swinburne; the Brownings; the Rossettis (Dante Gabriel; Christina and William Michael); Carlyle; and Millais and other members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.The penniless but clever daughter of a clergyman; Pauline Jermyn married an older man whom she met through a shared passion for geology. Sir Walter Trevelyan was a philanthropist; teetotal; vegetarian; pacificist ... and very rich. With his encouragement; she collected works of art and decorated Wallington Hall with a cycle of vast paintings on the history of Northumberland. She was a patron of the arts who provided a fostering environment for many of the geniuses of her day. After her death; Swinburne wept every time her name was mentioned.
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