I qualified as a primary school teacher in 2003 and then worked at Horniman Primary school for the next 13 years. At the beginning of each chapter, for example, there are short narrative passages - perhaps recounting Isabella’s passionate feelings for her lover or evoking a storm at sea - which have an almost cinematic quality to them. The Cambridge alumnus was formerly the head of Winckworth Sherwood’s family team for five years before joining Boodle Hatfield’s team in 2017, where ‘she has seamlessly established herself within the firm’ and is now head of department. She is highly attuned to the need for complete discretion and negotiations taking place ‘behind closed doors’.

Sarah Dent is currently studying for an MA in Literature of the Romantic Period at the University of York, specialising in the lives and work of the second generation. Her most recent book The Fall of the House of Byron (John Murray, 2020) was selected as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week, a Sunday Times, M ail on Sunday and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2020 Elma Dangerfield Prize. More and more owners of digital assets are starting to consider how they can pass the assets on as part of their succession planning.I’d really like to spend more time learning to paint and getting advice from professionals, but as I have a small child and work three days a week as an art teacher, I can’t see this happening for a few years. The book also touches on a variety of other elements of social and cultural history, including theatre, education, medicine and illness, and the role of women.

As Brand notes, in his letters “his affection persistently spilled into something decidedly unbrotherly” (p. Emily graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London in 2017 with an upper second class honours degree in History.His family, he would come to learn, had in recent decades become known for almost unfathomable levels of scandal and impropriety, from elopement, murder, and kidnapping to adultery, coercion, and thrilling near-death naval experiences. She was also passionate about the arts and was known in her later life for writing a book of advice for young ladies, Thoughts in the Form of Maxims. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Emily Brand is an author, historian and genealogist specialising in social history and romantic relationships during the long eighteenth century.