Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… collages. Her life also provides a perfect illustration of a woman seeking participation to collective activity and court, all the while relying on her sense of propriety to adapt to new sociable circles or to organize her own … assemblies. People > Art and Literature Practices > Reading & Writing Mots-clés Assemblies Bluestockings Correspondence Court Ireland Propriety Women Mary Delany (1700-1788) was born Mary Granville and educated so as to become a Lady of the … brothers, John and Charles, in sociable meetings mainly based on polite conversation and possibly also on a degree of courtship that led them to invent nicknames for each of them. In 1744, she attended an 'assembly' held by the diplomat …
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