Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet in 1702. The relationship with Ann Ayscough lasted to the end of Sedley's life. His reputation as a wit and dissolute was partially responsible for the Sedleys of William Makepeace Thackeray's "Vanity Fair". His most famous song, "Phyllis is My Only Joy", is much more widely known now than the author's name. While Sedley chiefly produced light amatory verse and pastoral dialogues in the 1670s, he turned to satirical epigrams in the 1680s and 1690s. His "Epigrams: or, Court Characters" are modelled on the works of Martial. In his epigram "To Nysus", for example, Sedley describes the function of satire
Kate Dobbin Kate Dobbin Kate Dobbin RHA (1868–1955) was an English artist who specialised in impressionistic watercolours of Irish country scenes and still lives of flowers. Dobbin was born Kate Wise in Bristol, England in 1868. She moved to Cork in 1887, where she met and married Cork's High Sheriff and merchant, Alfred Graham Dobbin. Dobbin studied at the Crawford Municipal School of Art from 1891 to 1895 under the tuition Harry Scully. Dobbin died in the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital, Cork in 1955. Dobbins' impressionistic style has been compared to that of Rose Maynard Barton. From 1894 to 1947, she