Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… William Pulteney – Elizabeth Montagu’s closest companions – Edmund Burke, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson, William Pepys, Horace Walpole, in precise, unbroken semi-circles opposite the fireside, to paraphrase Edward Burney’s description. 11 Although …
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