Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]
… after her death is probably at least partly due to her habit of avoiding putting her name on the title-pages of the books she had authored or edited. Moreover, Berry did not write poems and novels but preferred the genres of history and … and people, landscapes and architecture she had encountered on her journeys, notes about visits to the theatre, and books she had read and discussed. While Berry herself remains in the background and rarely gives a voice to her emotions, … 13 . See a recent study: Jonathan David Gross, The Life of Anne Damer: Portrait of a Regency Artist (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014). 14 . For a recent fictional evaluation of their friendship, see Emma Donoghue, Life Mask (Orlando: …
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