Robert Dingley

Robert Dingley is preparing a book on apocalyptic imagery in 19th-century literature and art. He is a research lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford.

Letter

Darkly facetious

18 September 1980

SIR: I am bemused by two sentences in Tim Hilton’s review of Kathryn Heleniak’s William Mulready (LRB, 18 September). Mr Hilton is discussing Lady Dilke: ‘She lacks a biographer. God be praised for His mercy, the George Eliot admirers (they are also the admirers of English water-colours) have so far left her alone.’ On general grounds, it is, I suppose, likely enough that some admirers of George...
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