Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… circles or to organize her own assemblies. People > Art and Literature Practices > Reading & Writing Keywords Assemblies Bluestockings Correspondence Court Ireland Propriety Women Mary Delany (1700-1788) was born Mary Granville and educated … were different in no respect from other parties, but that the company did not play at cards. 10 Diffident of cards, the Bluestockings also disregarded politics and scandal but aimed to combat the domestic vision of women, showing that men … Boscawen , Elizabeth Montagu and Elizabeth Vesey make it very unlikely that she could have been kept away from the Bluestockings. As early as in 1754, she invited Elizabeth Montagu, Catherine Talbot and Elizabeth Foley to her place; she …
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