Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… including Henrietta Bowdler, Catherine Dashwood, Catherine Macauley, James Beattie, James Boswell , Jacob Bryant, David Garrick, Soames Jenyns and Richard Brinsley Sheridan . She also invited many literati to her place even though other … were also admitted, Lord Lyttleton, William Pulteney – Elizabeth Montagu’s closest companions – Edmund Burke, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson , Samuel Pepys , Horace Walpole , in precise, unbroken semi-circles opposite the fireside, to …
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