… Image Boscawen’s letters to Hester Pitt, Lady Chatham. Chatham Papers, The National Archives, Kew. PRO 30/8/22 (part 2). Abstract As a bluestocking hostess, Frances Boscawen (1719-1805) is often mentioned in connection with Elizabeth … an admiral, Boscawen began as a political hostess, doing the honours at her marital home, 14 South Audley Street. H er parties are thus likely to have entertained a different crowd: elite fashionability and political clout were more important than literature or the arts. After having been widowed, however, Frances Boscawen strengthened her bluestocking connections, entertaining in …