Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… H er parties are thus likely to have entertained a different crowd: elite fashionability and political clout were more important than literature or the arts. After having been widowed, however, Frances Boscawen strengthened her … included Elizabeth Montagu , Dr Johnson , James Boswell , Joshua and Frances Reynolds, Elizabeth Carter, and later, Hannah More .’ 8 Hester Thrale also belonged to her circles. In 1778, Thrale remembers a ‘Talk one Evening at Mrs … churches were discussed, and Lord Chatham’s political courage as well as Samuel Foote’s wit came under scrutiny. 9 Hannah More not only kept up a lively correspondence with Mrs Boscawen, but also described Boscawen’s parties in her …
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