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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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Spas [ Health ]
… Well-Known 18th-Century Medical and Literary Texts: From John Floyer’s The Ancient Psychrolousia Revived (1702) to Fanny Burney’s Evelina (1778)”, in Annick Cossic and Patrick Galliou (eds). Spas in Britain and in France in the Eighteenth and … 12 All these gendered interactions are known to us through literature, especially the novels of Jane Austen and Frances Burney ( Evelina ), in which young women accompany older men or women to a spa town (usually Bath or Bristol Hotwells). …
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Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
… Jones (1749) and Amelia (1751), John Cleland’s Fanny Hill (1749), Tobias Smollett’s Peregrine Pickle (1751) or Frances Burney ’s Evelina (1778) and Cecilia (1782). Their function was typically that of ‘plot catalysts’ (Castle 127), …
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