Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… Alexander Pendarves who took her to his solitary castle of Roscrow in Cornwall where she was kept out of most sociable meetings. In the last years of her husband’s life, she was back in London and managed to regain several social contacts … first visit in the following words on 24 January 1733: 'We are initiated of that witty club, and Thursday is the day of meeting'. (Newport, vol. 1, 83) Although several gatherings had to be cancelled because of Swift’s health, they were … deal of entertainment from him, but improvement' (88). Two years after leaving Ireland, she still missed those weekly meetings and expressed it in her prolonged correspondence with Swift. 2 1 . Newport (Wales), Newport Reference Library, …
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