A good poet, his spouse, and “the ugliest of all of the possible left mistresses”. On next instalment regarding a series with the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Hayley Records, Lisa Gee brings up an eighteenth-millennium love triangle.
William Hayley married 1st partner, Eliza, to the rebound. If it ended up one to she decided not to happen as moved, it introduced an other woman to their wedding.
Strong inside Fitzwilliam Museum’s Hayley Documents is some seriously caring characters authored to help you William Hayley along with his man Tom. Three was in fact caused by Hayley’s very first girlfriend Eliza, others to help you an effective “Skip Betts” exactly who, until recently was named Tom’s mommy. In reality, these people were all compiled by Mary Cockerell – the woman art historian Suzanne E , and you can who had been revealed from the kid exactly who modified Hayley’s Memoirs as “the new sourest and you can, I do believe the latest ugliest of all the you can kept mistresses”.
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