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Fanny Blood was paid by the botanist [[William Curtis]] to paint wild flowers for his book ''[[Flora Londinensis]]''. This created an income for her family. Fanny was engaged to Hugh Skeys but her fiance had gone to sea to establish money that would finance their marriage.<ref name="Gordon2016">{{cite book|author=Charlotte Gordon|title=Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7rq8CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA39|date=25 February 2016|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-0-09-959239-6|pages=39–41}}</ref> |
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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" /> As [[William Godwin]] wrote, Mary "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 at the house of common friends, the Clares.<ref name="dolmetsch" /> As [[William Godwin]] wrote, Mary "contracted a friendship so fervent, as for years to have constituted the ruling passion of her mind".<ref>Godwin, 50.</ref> |
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Fanny Blood | |
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 A Plate from Flora Londinensis | |
| Born | 1758 |
| Died | 29 November, 1785 |
| Nationality | UK |
| Spouse | Hugh Skeys |
Frances "Fanny" Blood (1758 - November 29, 1785) was an English illustrator and educator and longtime friend of Mary Wollstonecraft.
Early life
Frances "Fanny" Blood was born in 1758, the daughter of Matthew Blood II (1730-1794) and Caroline Roe (c.1730-1805).[1]
Career
Fanny Blood was paid by the botanist William Curtis to paint wild flowers for his book Flora Londinensis. This created an income for her family. Fanny was engaged to Hugh Skeys but her fiance 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 at the house of common friends, the Clares.[3] As William Godwin wrote, Mary "contracted a friendship so fervent, as for years to have constituted the ruling passion of her mind".[4]
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.[5] On February 24, 1785, Fanny Blood married Hugh Skeys (born ca. 1758), a wine merchant of Dublin. When Blood married and left the school, Wollstonecraft left as well to take care of her friend, also the second school failed.[6]
Blood died in childbirth in Lisbon, Portugal, on November 29, 1785.[1][3] Wollstonecraft was deeply affected by Blood's death and in part inspired her first novel, Mary: A Fiction (1788).[7] Wollstonecraft named her daughter, Fanny Imlay (1794-1816), after her friend.[3]
References
- ^ a b "Fanny Blood". Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ Charlotte Gordon (25 February 2016). Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley. Random House. pp. 39–41. ISBN 978-0-09-959239-6.
- ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference
dolmetschwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Godwin, 50.
- ^ Kelly, Gary (2016). Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Springer. p. 27. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ Janet, Todd (2002). Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life. Columbia University Press. p. 62. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ Wardle, Ralph Martin (1951). Mary Wollstonecraft: a critical biography. University of Kansas Press. p. Chapter 2. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
Bibliography
- 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.