Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]
… National Portrait Gallery, NPG D14939, circa 1830-1860. Abstract Mary Berry (1763-1852), renowned traveller, author, and salonnière, friend of Horace Walpole's, headed sociable circles in London but also spent time in the vicinity of … some aristocratic places such as Devonshire House and Holland House. Although ‘no great celebrity’ 1 , Berry, like other salonnières, knew a large number of literati, politicians, and artists, and through her sheer longevity, remained a … from the Year 1783 to 1852‘, British Quarterly Review (vol. 43, 1866), p. 60-86. 2 . Susanne Schmid, British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), p. 53, 67-68; Amy …
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