Theophila Gwatkin

She also compiled, added a preface, footnote glosses and a dictionary of dialect terms to her mother's, Mary Reynolds, A Devonshire Dialogue.

Gwatkin’s mother had a passion for art and had a significant influence on her brother, Sir Joshua, when he was a boy.

[1] When Gwatkin was 13 years old she and her sister, Mary (later Lady Thomond), lodged with Sir Joshua in Leicester Fields, London.

[3][2]She [Gwatkin] has been very pretty, and, though deaf, is very agreeable - enthusiastically and affectionately fond of her uncle – indignant at the idea of his not having himself written the Discourses;[4] "Burke or Johnson, indeed!

Not long since (as themselves informed me), the person who shewed those windows to Mr. and Mrs. G. observed to Mrs. Gwatkin: "This figure of Hope, Madam, is a portrait of a niece of Sir J.

[13]  Gwatkin’s nephew, James Fredrick Palmer, combined some of his grandmother’s dialogues alongside his own glossary and published it in 1837.

[14] In 1839, she compiled all of her mother’s dialogues and added a preface, footnote glosses and a dictionary of dialect terms.

This, Gwatkin’s, complete version, A Devonshire Dialogue, credits the appended glossary, for the most part, to the late Rev.