Alfred moberley biography

Biography: Alfred Moberly was born on 9 September 1835 in Clapham, the son of William Moberly and his second wife Louisa Henrietta (née Martin).
Alfred Moberly, artist and designer of elegant wallpaper and furniture, and Elizabeth Sanderson, committed to the rescue of poor and abused.
When Alfred Moberley was born on 18 June 1806, in Madison, Kentucky, United States, his father, Benjamin Moberly Jr., was 46 and his mother, Lavinia Meadow.

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Lady Fancifull

Let us not forget the sisters who struggled before us

I’m at a loss to know where to start to adequately praise this excellent, layered novel from Sarah Moss, who has the stunning ability to write novels ‘about deep and complex stuff’ , engage with both the heart and the head, create real, properly dimensional, complex characters, write beautifully and unindulgently, and do all this within the discipline of a pacey narrative drive

Moss’s territory is the complex lives of girls and women, caught between their own personal identity, their calling, vocation and creativity, and the counter-pull, whether of a society which limits and curtails women, or the counter-pull imposed by the biology of mothering and the fierce demands of children

I read, some time ago, Moss’s last book, Night Waking, which I found brilliant, distressing, disturbing, but for me, there were some irritations, which pulled me back from 5 stars. Night Waking concerned a professional couple, with 2 small children, engaged in their work on a Scottish island. There was the tension of the child

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Women's Fashion, c. 1870 *

My maternal grandfather was a civil servant at the Treasury, but his hobbies (possibly ‘real self’) were Astronomy and Pottery. Evidence suggests he was rather good at both — but here we’re concerned with pottery, taking place at Putney School of Art, around World War 1. Here he made friends with a number of artists, one of whom was the elderly William Shakespeare Burton, who worked in the Pre-Raphaelite style and occasionally had paintings displayed at the Royal Academy. My mother’s sister was named Violet Christina, after one of Burton’s daughters, and rumour added that the latter’s godmother had been Christina Rossetti…

This, and another piece of family history (wait for that one), drew my eye to Sarah Moss’s novel Bodies of Light, featuring fictional artist and designer Alfred Moberly, working in the mid-19th century, and influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite painters.

The novel opens to the world of industrial Manchester in the 1870s. Alfre

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Alfred Moberley

When Alfred Moberley was born on 18 June 1806, in Madison, Kentucky, United States, his father, Benjamin Moberly Jr., was 46 and his mother, Lavinia Meadow, was 46. He married Lucinda Park on 17 November 1829, in Madison, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Eastern, Floyd, Kentucky, United States in 1830. He died on 7 March 1886, in Madison, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Red Hill Cemetery, Panola, Madison, Kentucky, United States.