Frances Glanville Boscawen [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]
… name, and finally Rosedale at Richmond. Boscawen also spent a lot of time visiting friends such as Mary Delany and the Duchess of Portland at Bulstrode, and, in later life, her married children at Badminton and Bill Hill. 14 Not having left … 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 invitation, expecting ‘ deep and constant ’ play to be the main amusement. Yet London … french Ladies I entertain’d in them during the past Summers who have now suffer’d & been put to death on the Scaffold. A Duchesse de Biron, a charming Woman: a Comtesse the Bouflers, la Comtesse Emilie de Bouflers, sa belle Fille, & then a …
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