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'''Frances "Fanny" Blood''' (1758 - November 29, 1785) was an English illustrator and educator, longtime friend of [[Mary Wollstonecraft]].
'''Frances''' "'''Fanny'''" '''Blood''' (1758 – 29 November 1785) was an English illustrator and educator, and longtime friend of [[Mary Wollstonecraft]].


==Early life==
==Early life==
Frances "Fanny" Blood was born in 1758, the daughter of Matthew Blood II (1730-1794) and Caroline Roe (c.1730-1805).<ref name="ancestry">{{cite web|title=Fanny Blood|url=https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/fanny-blood_19894489|accessdate=24 September 2017}}</ref>
Blood was born in 1758, the daughter of Matthew Blood the Younger (1730–1794) and Caroline Roe ({{c.}} 1730–1805).<ref name="ancestry">{{cite web|title=Fanny Blood|website=[[Ancestry.com]] |url=https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/fanny-blood_19894489|accessdate=24 September 2017}} {{subscription required}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
Blood was paid by the botanist [[William Curtis]] to paint wildflowers for his book ''[[Flora Londinensis]]''. This created an income for her family. Blood was engaged to Hugh Skeys, a wine merchant of Dublin, but her fiancé had gone to sea to establish money that would finance their marriage.<ref name="Gordon2016">{{cite book |author=Gordon |first=Charlotte |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7rq8CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA39 |title=Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley |date=25 February 2016 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-0-09-959239-6 |pages=39–41}}</ref>
Fanny Blood painted some of the plates for the book ''[[Flora Londinensis]]'' by [[James Sowerby]].<ref name="dolmetsch">{{cite web|title=brian blood and the blood family|url=http://www.dolmetsch.com/Bebinfo.htm|accessdate=24 September 2017}}</ref>


[[William Godwin]] later put it, "for whom she contracted a friendship so fervent, as for years to have constituted the ruling passion of her mind".<ref>Godwin, 50.</ref>
Fanny Blood and her brother, Lieutenant George Blood (1762–1844), were good friends with [[Mary Wollstonecraft]]. They met in 1774 after introductions by common friends, the Clares.<ref name="Gordon2016" /> As Wollstonecraft's husband [[William Godwin]] wrote, Wollstonecraft "contracted a friendship so fervent, as for years to have constituted the ruling passion of her mind".<ref>Godwin, 50.</ref>


Blood, together with Mary Wollstonecraft and Wollstonecraft's sisters, Eliza and Everina, opened a school first in Islington, which soon failed, and then in [[Newington Green]]. The school was combined with a boarding-house for women and their children.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kelly|first1=Gary|title=Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft|date=2016|publisher=Springer|page=27|url=https://books.google.it/books?id=qxC_DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA27|accessdate=24 September 2017}}</ref> When Blood married and left the school, Wollstonecraft left as well to take care of her friend, also the second school failed.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Janet|first1=Todd|title=Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life|date=2002|publisher=Columbia University Press|page=62|url=https://books.google.it/books/about/Mary_Wollstonecraft.html?id=f4jpqjNEx-cC&redir_esc=y|accessdate=24 September 2017}}</ref> Wollstonecraft felt betrayed by Fanny's decision to marry, and some critics claim that she depicted Fanny as an incomplete friend..<ref>Taylor, 261, n. 57; Todd, ''A Revolutionary Life'', 68; 111–13; Sapiro, 14–15; Hoeveler, 32; Kelly, ''Revolutionary Feminism'', 40–41; Wardle, 62; 345, n. 19.</ref>
Blood, together with Mary Wollstonecraft and Wollstonecraft's sisters, Eliza and Everina, opened a school, first in [[Islington]], which soon failed, and then in [[Newington Green]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Mee |first1=Jon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I5ab_9Uz7UEC&dq=fanny+blood&pg=PA51 |title=Romanticism and Revolution: A Reader |last2=Fallon |first2=David |date=2010-12-21 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-4443-9349-1 |pages=51 |language=en}}</ref> The school was combined with a [[boarding house]] for women and their children.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kelly|first1=Gary|title=Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft|date=2016|publisher=Springer|page=27|isbn=9781349243273|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qxC_DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA27|accessdate=24 September 2017}}</ref> On 24 February 1785 Blood married Skeys. When Blood married and left the school, Wollstonecraft left as well to take care of her friend—the second school failing as well.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Janet|first1=Todd|title=Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life|date=2002|publisher=Columbia University Press|page=62|isbn=9780231121859|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f4jpqjNEx-cC|accessdate=24 September 2017}}</ref>


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Blood died in childbirth in Lisbon, Portugal, on 29 November 1785.<ref name="ancestry" /> She was buried in the British Cemetery in Lisbon with her son William Skeys.<ref>{{Cite web |last=ezramagazine |date=2024-04-08 |title=A Necessary Life {{!}} The story of Mary Wollstonecraft |url=https://ezramagazine.com/a-necessary-life-the-story-of-mary-wollstonecraft/ |access-date=2024-04-11 |website=Ezra Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> Wollstonecraft was deeply affected by Blood's death, which in part inspired her first novel, ''[[Mary: A Fiction]]'' (1788).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wardle|first1=Ralph Martin|title=Mary Wollstonecraft: a critical biography|date=1951|publisher=University of Kansas Press|page=Chapter 2|isbn=9780803252110|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MTaaAAAAIAAJ|accessdate=24 September 2017}}</ref> Wollstonecraft named her daughter, [[Fanny Imlay]] (1794–1816), after her friend.
==Personal life==
Fanny Blood and her brother Lieutenant George Blood (1762-1844) were good friends with [[Mary Wollstonecraft]]. They met in 1774 at the house of common friends, the Clares.<ref name="dolmetsch" />

On February 24, 1785, Fanny Blood married Hugh Skeys (born ca. 1758), a wine merchant of Dublin. She died in childbirth in Lisbon, Portugal, on November 29, 1785.<ref name="ancestry" /><ref name="dolmetsch" />

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Wollstonecraft was deeply affected by Blood's death and in part inspired her first novel, ''[[Mary: A Fiction]]'' (1788).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wardle|first1=Ralph Martin|title=Mary Wollstonecraft: a critical biography|date=1951|publisher=University of Kansas Press|page=Chapter 2|url=https://books.google.it/books/about/Mary_Wollstonecraft.html?id=MTaaAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y|accessdate=24 September 2017}}</ref> Wollstonecraft named her daughter, [[Fanny Imlay]] (1794-1816), after her friend.<ref name="dolmetsch" />


==References==
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==Bibliography==
* [[William Godwin|Godwin, William]]. ''[[Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman]]''. Eds. Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2001. {{ISBN|1-55111-259-0}}.


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Latest revision as of 20:12, 18 October 2024

Fanny Blood
A plate from Flora Londinensis
Born
Frances Blood

1758
Died29 November 1785(1785-11-29) (aged 26–27)
Lisbon
Burial placeBritish Cemetery, Lisbon Portugal
NationalityBritish
SpouseHugh Skeys
ChildrenWilliam Skeys (d.1786)

Frances "Fanny" Blood (1758 – 29 November 1785) was an English illustrator and educator, and longtime friend of Mary Wollstonecraft.

Early life

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Blood was born in 1758, the daughter of Matthew Blood the Younger (1730–1794) and Caroline Roe (c. 1730–1805).[1]

Career

[edit]

Blood was paid by the botanist William Curtis to paint wildflowers for his book Flora Londinensis. This created an income for her family. Blood was engaged to Hugh Skeys, a wine merchant of Dublin, but her fiancé had gone to sea to establish money that would finance their marriage.[2]

Fanny Blood and her brother, Lieutenant George Blood (1762–1844), were good friends with Mary Wollstonecraft. They met in 1774 after introductions by common friends, the Clares.[2] As Wollstonecraft's husband William Godwin wrote, Wollstonecraft "contracted a friendship so fervent, as for years to have constituted the ruling passion of her mind".[3]

Blood, together with Mary Wollstonecraft and Wollstonecraft's sisters, Eliza and Everina, opened a school, first in Islington, which soon failed, and then in Newington Green.[4] The school was combined with a boarding house for women and their children.[5] On 24 February 1785 Blood married Skeys. When Blood married and left the school, Wollstonecraft left as well to take care of her friend—the second school failing as well.[6]

Blood died in childbirth in Lisbon, Portugal, on 29 November 1785.[1] She was buried in the British Cemetery in Lisbon with her son William Skeys.[7] Wollstonecraft was deeply affected by Blood's death, which in part inspired her first novel, Mary: A Fiction (1788).[8] Wollstonecraft named her daughter, Fanny Imlay (1794–1816), after her friend.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Fanny Blood". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 24 September 2017. (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Gordon, Charlotte (25 February 2016). Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley. Random House. pp. 39–41. ISBN 978-0-09-959239-6.
  3. ^ Godwin, 50.
  4. ^ Mee, Jon; Fallon, David (21 December 2010). Romanticism and Revolution: A Reader. John Wiley & Sons. p. 51. ISBN 978-1-4443-9349-1.
  5. ^ Kelly, Gary (2016). Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Springer. p. 27. ISBN 9781349243273. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  6. ^ Janet, Todd (2002). Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life. Columbia University Press. p. 62. ISBN 9780231121859. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  7. ^ ezramagazine (8 April 2024). "A Necessary Life | The story of Mary Wollstonecraft". Ezra Magazine. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
  8. ^ Wardle, Ralph Martin (1951). Mary Wollstonecraft: a critical biography. University of Kansas Press. p. Chapter 2. ISBN 9780803252110. Retrieved 24 September 2017.

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