Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]
… and artists, and through her sheer longevity, remained a decades-long presence in London's society. That, like other women writers before her, she largely disappeared from public consciousness after her death is probably at least partly … Life Writing of Mary Berry (1763-1852) and Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)' in Andrew O. Winckles and Angela Rehbein (eds.), Women's Literary Networks and Romanticism: 'A Tribe of Authoresses' (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017), p. … collector, author, creator of the mock Gothic mansion Strawberry Hill – whom they met in 1788, helped the two young women and their father Robert to become established in society. Part of their interaction is documented through letters …
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