Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… throughout her life, it was perhaps not in keeping with the most formal sociable activities which she still tasted more often than not. Irish sociability From 1731, the widow Pendarves, desirous to take her distance from England and her … Vesey, Frances Boscawen and the Duchess of Portland. In 1782, the number and celebrity of her guests led her to neglect Hannah More ’s conversation, which she soon afterwards apologized for in a letter: 'I hope you have not suffered from the … 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 movement explains it in simple words: The …
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