Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… in London as well as in the country . People > Aristocracy People > Art and Literature Keywords Bluestockings Conversation Correspondence Politics Women Born in 1719, Frances Evelyn Glanville was a distant relative of diarist John … ease, but Boscawen evidently had notable success as a hostess, and reference to her agreeable politeness and elegant conversation abound in later references to her among the bluestocking circles, too. 5 Comparing her own talents as a … n° 3’). 5 . See, for instance, Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. R. W. Chapman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970): ‘her conversation the best, of any lady with whom I ever had the happiness to be acquainted’, p. 978; Frances Burney, The …
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