Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… Bas-bleu to a small party of friends, 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, … https://www.digitens.org/en/notices/mary-delany.html Further Reading Clark, Peter, Sociability and Urbanity: Clubs and Societies in the Eighteenth-Century City (Leicester: University of Leicester, 1986). Elias, Norbert, The Court Society … to adapt to new sociable circles or to organize her own assemblies. … Clark, Peter, Sociability and Urbanity: Clubs and Societies in the Eighteenth-Century City (Leicester: University of Leicester, 1986). Elias, Norbert, The Court Society …
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