Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… Mary Pendarves accounts for her first visit in the following words on 24 January 1733: 'We are initiated of that witty club, and Thursday is the day of meeting'. (Newport, vol. 1, 83) Although several gatherings had to be cancelled because … URL: https://www.digitens.org/en/notices/mary-delany.html Further Reading Clark, Peter, Sociability and Urbanity: Clubs and Societies in the Eighteenth-Century City (Leicester: University of Leicester, 1986). Elias, Norbert, The … propriety to adapt to new sociable circles or to organize her own assemblies. … Clark, Peter, Sociability and Urbanity: Clubs and Societies in the Eighteenth-Century City (Leicester: University of Leicester, 1986). Elias, Norbert, The …
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