Edith Corbet Voer een
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een galerie.
Kies een stemming en de kamer zelf antwoordt — het licht koelt of warmt op, de sfeer verandert van tempo, en alleen de werken die dat gevoel belichamen, treden naar voren uit de duisternis. De rest verdwijnt in de schaduw.
Edith Corbet
Early Life and Family Background Edith Corbet enters the historical record on 28 December 1846, born in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. She is the second daughter and fifth child of Henry Edenborough and Margaret Stedman. Her father, a sea captain, had made several voyages to Australia between 1833 and 1837 before deciding to settle there in 1840. The family establishes a life on a farm south of Goulburn known as 'Wollogorang,' a
property featuring a two-storey brick and stone rubble building with distinctive French windows. This pastoral existence remains the family's reality until 1854. The landscape of her childhood shifts when the family sells the Wollogorang property and returns to England. The Edenborough family, originally from Leicestershire, settles in London. There, they transition into the life of prosperous merchants, dealing in hosiery and silk.…