Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… nicknames for each of them. In 1744, she attended an 'assembly' held by the diplomat Luke Schaub in London 3 ; her exchanges with Eleanor Butler suggest a degree of involvement in the circle of the ladies of Llangollen. 4 More regularly … whose members met from 1756 till 1788 at Elizabeth Vesey’s, Elizabeth Montagu’s and Hester Boscawen’s places in order to exchange ideas. The introductory lines of Hannah More’s poem 'The Bas Bleu: or, Conversation' (1787) paying homage to the …
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