… to their various homes, mostly in London but also in the country, for gatherings which did not involve the usual card games but were based on literary (not political) conversation. Bluestocking sociability was based on the advance of …
Mary Delany
[ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… their taste for conversation, 12 good meals, gardens and domestic qualities; 13 and her views on marriage, card games and politics echo those of the Bluestockings. 9 . See Ethel Rolt Wheeler, 'Mary Delany', in Famous Blue-Stockings …