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Autograph Letter Signed, to “Dear Ophelia”, inviting her to “a plain Christmas Dinner”, naming the other guests. 3 pp. 5 x 3 inches, in good condition. 7 FitzRoy Square, 13 December 1877. Lady Elizabeth Eastlake (1809 – 1893), born Elizabeth Rigby, was an author, art critic and art historian, and was the first woman to write regularly for the Quarterly Review. She is known not only for her writing, but also for her significant role in the London art world while her husband, Sir Charles Eastlake, was director of the National Gallery.