Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… Her sociable duties would have included close attention to interior decoration, as personal taste was necessary to impress visitors. Thus, Boscawen informed her husband: ‘Taste I always pretended to and must own I shall be greatly … s.v. ‘drum, n° 3’). 5 . See, for instance, Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. R. W. Chapman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970): ‘her conversation the best, of any lady with whom I ever had the happiness to be acquainted’, p. 978; … Burney, The Journals and Letters of Frances Burney (Madame D’Arblay), ed. Joyce Hemlow, 12 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), IV, p. 107. Like other members of the bluestocking circle, Frances Boscawen was proud to consider herself a …
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