Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… other parties, but that the company did not play at cards. 10 Diffident of cards, the Bluestockings also disregarded politics and scandal but aimed to combat the domestic vision of women, showing that men and women could converse on a … taste for conversation, 12 good meals, gardens and domestic qualities; 13 and her views on marriage, card games and politics echo those of the Bluestockings. 9 . See Ethel Rolt Wheeler, 'Mary Delany', in Famous Blue-Stockings (London: …
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