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Title: Gardens of celebrities and celebrated gardens in and around London
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Macgregor, Jessie
Subjects: Gardens
Publisher: London : Hutchinson & co.
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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at Blenheim. Angry at first, he rather quicklyforgave the young couple, for Hogarth, at the time of his marriage,had just made his mark with The Harlots Progress; and, withhis conversation-groups of small family portraits, was making acompetency. Thornhill lived long enough to rejoice in the begin-nings of his son-in-laws fame, to recognize his genius, and toacknowledge that his pretty daughter had not made a bad match,. after all. The union proved a very happy one ; Jane made thepainter an excellent wife. But her father died fifteen years beforethey came to Chiswick, where Mrs. Hogarth continued mostly tolive after her famous husbands death. He left her his house atChiswick, and all his other property, consisting chiefly of hisengraved copper-plates. One is glad to know that, by a specialAct of Parliament, the copyright of these was secured to her for aconsiderable number of years, and that, when the sale of the printsgradually decreased, the Royal Academy, at the instance of the 232
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^ Q. o 3.^ ^ o HOGARTH HOUSE, GHISWICK Xing, had bestowed upon her a pension of forty pounds. Shecould not have been at all wealthy, and the carriage was probablysoon given up ; but she kept up her dignity, and, accompanied bya relation, who was probably Mary Lewis, to whom she left herproperty, she was long wheeled to the parish church in a bath-chair,attended by her grey-headed man-servant Samuel, who walkedbefore her carrying her books up the aisle. Sir Richard Phillipshad vivid recollections of seeing her on these occasions ; he was aboy at the time, but recalls the stately air with which, carrying acane, she sailed up the church in her silken sacque, high head-dress,and black whaleboned hood, being locked in her pew by herdependant. Living as they did for the greater part of their lives, in the city,the attraction that drew Hogarth and his wife to Chiswick wasprobably the garden, which in their day, according to Mary Lewis, was laid out in good style. It was then in the midst of

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