Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… a private house, attended by people from fashionable society’ (www.oed.com, s.v. ‘drum, n° 3’). 5 . See, for instance, Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. R. W. Chapman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970): ‘her conversation the best, of any … Street, where she now hosted popular bluestocking assemblies ; her guests included Elizabeth Montagu, Dr Johnson, James Boswell, Joshua and Frances Reynolds, Elizabeth Carter, and later, Hannah More.’ 8 Hester Thrale also belonged to her …
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