Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… Johnson, William Pepys, Horace Walpole, in precise, unbroken semi-circles opposite the fireside, to paraphrase Edward Burney’s description. 11 Although Mary Delany’s name is not mentioned in Hannah More’s poem (neither is Hester Thrale’s … Bas-Bleu; or, Conversation (1787). Neither Hester Thrale nor Mary Delany are mentioned in the poem. 11 . Memoirs of Dr. Burney, 3 vols. (London: Edward Moxon, 1832), vol. 2, p. 271-272. 12 . In 1736, when they first met, Elizabeth Montagu … yet, she still kept a sense of the etiquette in all situations, and did her best to teach it to her protegee, Frances Burney, whom her father had asked Mary Delany to introduce at court. Henrietta Ward, 'The Queens Lodge, Windsor, in …
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