Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… and her sister Ann met regularly with the Wesley brothers, John and Charles, in sociable meetings mainly based on polite conversation and possibly also on a degree of courtship that led them to invent nicknames for each of them. In 1744, she … Boscawen and the Duchess of Portland. In 1782, the number and celebrity of her guests led her to neglect Hannah More ’s conversation, which she soon afterwards apologized for in a letter: 'I hope you have not suffered from the pleasure you bestowed on me last Saturday. I was sorry my circle enlarged, as it prevented my enjoying your conversation as much as I wished to do.' 6 Usually organised from January to April, when she was in London, 7 those …
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