Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… Vesey’s and at a few other houses, for the sole purpose of conversation, and were different in no respect from other parties, but that the company did not play at cards. 10 Diffident of cards, the Bluestockings also disregarded politics …
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