21st C
I hate cakes of soap on the hand-basin which begin to show their age by means of nasty black lines leading to horrible cracks. So I started buying quite expensive and well-known brands of liquid hand-wash in bottles furnished with neat little pumps to work them. Now I find to my horror that those pretty bottles (usually plastic) dribble their contents onto the hand-basin and start eating through the porcelain, leaving an obvious mark which feels rough to the touch. If the liquid can do that to a hand-basin, what is it doing to my skin? So I am, like Margaret Gainsborough in the 18th C, now back to using old-fashioned good quality soap in the bathroom. She, of course, didn't have the luxury of the latter.
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LIVING WITH MRS THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH IN THE CIRCUS, BATH, 18TH /21ST C By VIVIENNE RAE-ELLIS The following is a work in progress, to be published here in instalments. The manuscript has not been submitted to any publisher. References and bibliography will be published following the final chapter. 1) go to the Manuscript below right.. 2) Start from the top entry.. 3) Read down through the manuscript
The Circus
About Me
- Vivienne Rae-Ellis FRGS
- I am an ex-pat Tasmanian author who has lived in England since 1987. I have had eleven books published in seventeen editions by publishers who include Faber&Faber, Heinemann, Hamish Hamilton, Robert Hale, University Of Melbourne, University of Yale, Angus Robertson and the Australian Institute Of Aboriginal Studies. Subjects include biographies of three famous Australians: Trucanini, the last Aboriginal Tasmanian to live and die on the island; Louisa Anne Meredith, Australia's first resident female author, and George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector of the Aborigines in the 1830's. Published work includes books for adults and for children based on the history of Australia; the paranormal;and Public Libraries.