Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… expressed it in her prolonged correspondence with Swift. 2 1 . Newport (Wales), Newport Reference Library, Mrs Delany’s Letters, 10 vols, vol. 1, p. 66. 2 . 'I was in hopes the weekly meetings would have been renewed and continued', Swift, Works, ed. by John Nichols (London: J. Johnson, 1801), vol. 13 (Letters), p. 241. On that point, also see David Nokes, Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed (London: Oxford University … 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 pleasure you bestowed on me last Saturday. I was sorry my circle enlarged, …
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