Catherine Jackson
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Lady Catherine Hannah Charlotte Elliott Jackson (1824–1891), was the wife of Knight Diplomat Sir George Jackson http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P15251 (1785–1861), whom she married in 1856, and a prolific author in her own right, especially in the area of European history and of the court of France
in the 16th century.
After the death of her husband in 1861, she turned to literature
, starting by editing the diaries and letters of her husband's early life. He was a distinguished diplomat, and is best known for accompanying Sir Charles Stuart to Germany and entering Paris with him in 1815, and for his efforts in connection with the abolition of the slave trade
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On June 19, 1874, she was granted a pension in recognition of her husband's services.
She then studied a variety of French memoirs, and compiled from them several books on French society. A few of the better known including "Old Paris: its Court and Literary Salons", appeared in two volumes in 1878, and "The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century", also in two volumes.
Lady Jackson also wrote about art, especially Western painting
, in her histories of the French royal court. In her book "The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century", she observed:
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
in the 16th century.
After the death of her husband in 1861, she turned to literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
, starting by editing the diaries and letters of her husband's early life. He was a distinguished diplomat, and is best known for accompanying Sir Charles Stuart to Germany and entering Paris with him in 1815, and for his efforts in connection with the abolition of the slave trade
Slave Trade Act
The Slave Trade Act was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on 25 March 1807, with the long title "An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade". The original act is in the Parliamentary Archives...
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On June 19, 1874, she was granted a pension in recognition of her husband's services.
She then studied a variety of French memoirs, and compiled from them several books on French society. A few of the better known including "Old Paris: its Court and Literary Salons", appeared in two volumes in 1878, and "The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century", also in two volumes.
Lady Jackson also wrote about art, especially Western painting
Western painting
The history of Western painting represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from antiquity. Until the mid-19th century it was primarily concerned with representational and Classical modes of production, after which time more modern, abstract and conceptual forms gained favor.Developments...
, in her histories of the French royal court. In her book "The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century", she observed:
- "At about this time [speaking of the painter Raphael] only, movable pictures, to be hung on walls as ornaments, began to be in frequent demand. It is considered doubtful whether before the sixteenth century any such existed. For what would now be termed the easel pictures of the older masters have been detached from some articles of civil or ecclesiastical furniture."