… senior, wealthy and well-connected Edward Montagu. The couple had one son who died in infancy. Montagu suffered from ill health (mostly called ‘nervous’ and occasionally ‘bilious’) and spent part of almost every year at Tunbridge Wells taking …
Mary Delany
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… is the day of meeting'. (Newport, vol. 1, 83) Although several gatherings had to be cancelled because of Swift’s health, they were still regular in March and April 1733, so that Mary Pendarves started to enjoy them in spite of Swift’s …