Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… so that Mary Pendarves started to enjoy them in spite of Swift’s manners: 'Swift is a very odd companion (if that expression is not too familiar for so extraordinary a genius); he talks a great deal and does not require many answers; he … 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, Mrs Delany’s … (Letters), p. 241. On that point, also see David Nokes, Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed (London: Oxford University Press, 1985), p. 385. Salonnière In the following years, in England, Mary and her sister Ann met regularly with the …
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