Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… attention’ (Roberts, I, 93). 8 . Elizabeth Eger, ‘Boscawen, Frances Evelyn (1719–1805)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/47078 (accessed 1 November 2022). 9 . Hester Thrale, Thraliana: The … might be Boscawen’s description of the Lady’s Club that Lady Pembroke and others established at Almack’s in 1770 ( Autobiography and Letters of Mary Delany , I, 261-63). S he was glad her daughter, the Duchess of Beaufort, refused an … told Mary Delany, although ‘Quadrille was much better suited to my capacity; but that is out of fashion, it seems’ ( Autobiography and Letters of Mary Delany , I, 478-79). Not even polite receptions were polite any more, she claimed: …
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