The Fortunes of an Eighteenth-century Fiddlemaker’s Daughter: Mary Norman, John Boson and The Sublime Society of Beef Steaks
Sir John Hawkins immortalised the daughters of Barak Norman, one of England’s leading instrument makers of the early 17th century as actresses of the lower class at Goodman’s-Fields. With a tale of a wood carver at the centre of London’s artistic community, Benjamin Hebbert looks a little further into the society she kept. In 1776 Sir […]
