Hayley’s Lady: Eliza Golf ball Hayley and you may Mary Cockerell
An effective poet, their spouse, and you can “brand new ugliest of all of the you are able to remaining mistresses”. On the second instalment out of a series towards the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Hayley Documentation, Lisa Gee introduces an eighteenth-100 years like triangle.
William Hayley partnered 1st spouse, Eliza, toward rebound. If this proved one to she did not happen to-be touched, they delivered another woman within their marriage.
Strong when you look at the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Hayley Documents was a number of seriously caring letters authored in order to William Hayley and his awesome kid Tom. About three had been attributed to Hayley’s earliest girlfriend Eliza, the remainder in order to an effective “Skip Betts” who, up until now try named Tom’s mommy. (more…)