… activities’. These ranged from ‘rescuing fallen women […] to organising subscriptions for publishing works by deserving authors’ 4 ,especially female authors in the case of Montagu. In 1781, at the height of her salon years, Montagu told her friend Elizabeth Vesey: ‘We …
… Having started as a provincial schoolteacher living in Bristol and educated in her father’s school, she soon became the author of a play, The Search after Happiness , which, first published locally, was republished in London where it won her …
Mary Delany
[ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… for women, was very often associated with literature, music and science. With the Duchess of Portland, she met authors, musicians, botanists but also the King and Queen who occasionally visited the Duchess at Bulstrode or invited …
… in both, but an introduction to a genteel use of language, also including less than subtle hints concerning the author’s political leanings. A proud Welshwoman, Hester nonetheless adopted the stance of an English patriot, and the …