Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… Johnson , Samuel Pepys , Horace Walpole , in precise, unbroken semi-circles opposite the fireside, to paraphrase Edward Burney ’s description. 11 Although Mary Delany’s name is not mentioned in Hannah More’s poem (neither is Hester Thrale ’s … Bas-Bleu; or, Conversation (1787). Neither Hester Thrale nor Mary Delany are mentioned in the poem. 11 . Memoirs of Dr. Burney, 3 vols. (London: Edward Moxon, 1832), vol. 2, p. 271-272. 12 . In 1736, when they first met, Elizabeth Montagu … yet, she still kept a sense of the etiquette in all situations, and did her best to teach it to her protegee, Frances Burney , whom her father had asked Mary Delany to introduce at court. Henrietta Ward, 'The Queens Lodge, Windsor, in …
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