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Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
… that enabled her to strike a lifelong friendship with David Garrick and his wife Eva and to lionize Samuel Johnson and Horace Walpole . What has been called ‘the Complicated Temptation of the theatre’ 2 reveals a tension at the heart of her …
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Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… 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 paraphrase Edward Burney ’s description. 11 …
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