Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… still tasted more often than not. Irish sociability From 1731, the widow Pendarves, desirous to take her distance from England and her many suitors there among whom Charles Wesley, left for Ireland where she attended several literary … ‘my master,’ and corrects me when I speak bad English, or do not pronounce my words distinctly. I wish he lived in England, I should not only have a great deal of entertainment from him, but improvement' (88). Two years after leaving … Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed (London: Oxford University Press, 1985), p. 385. Salonnière In the following years, in England, Mary and her sister Ann met regularly with the Wesley brothers, John and Charles, in sociable meetings mainly …
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