[3] Her eldest sister Anna Maria married Sir William Jones, who proposed the existence of the Indo-European language.

[4][2] Georgiana devoted herself to painting and they settled in Bologna, where she formed a friendship with Clotilda Tambroni, Professor of Ancient Greek at the university there.

[6] In 1792 she commissioned the artist and sculptor John Flaxman to create illustrations for Homer's books The Iliad and The Odyssey.

[4] In 1797 her father-in-law died and the Hare-Naylors set off for England, leaving three of their children in the care of Professor Tambroni and Father Emmanuele Aponte, a Spanish Jesuit priest.

[4] This was thought an odd decision but Georgiana took her own counsel and her eldest attributed his love of learning to the time he spent with these scholars.

[6] On Easter Sunday, 1806, Georgiana Hare-Naylor died at Lausanne,[8] leaving her children to the care of Lady Jones, her eldest sister.

[4] There is a poignant memorial to her at Herstmonceux which shows her on her death bed entrusting her only daughter, Anna Maria Clemintina,[6] then about seven years old, to her sister.