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Self portrait by Sara Hennell

Watercolour painting of a women. She has brown hair which is parted in the centre and tied up. She has a white collar and bow tied at the neck. In the left hand corner are the words S.S Hennell by herself.
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1830-1850
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A watercolour portrait by Sara Hennell. She first met George Eliot in 1842 at Rosehill, the Coventry home of her sister and brother-in-law, Cara and Charles Bray. Sara and Eliot became friends and corresponded regularly for the next 12 years.

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