Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… who had been often called, by way of pleasantry, the Blue Stockings. These little Societies have been sometimes misrepresented. They were composed of persons distinguished, in general, for their rank, talents, or respectable character, … experienced all the levels of sociability she had yearned for or been educated to yearn for in her youth. Very often present but rarely in the limelight, Mary Delany was a very sociable being, abiding by the rules of propriety in all …
Assemblies | Bluestockings | Correspondence | Court | Ireland | Propriety | Women
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