Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… it was perhaps not in keeping with the most formal sociable activities which she still tasted more often than not. Irish sociability From 1731, the widow Pendarves, desirous to take her distance from England and her many suitors there among … of the Bluestockings are listed by Wheeler, who occasionally alludes to Mary Delany (p. 246-62, 286-98, 320-30). Court sociability Mary Delany eventually gained access to the court of King George III and Queen Charlotte, experimenting two very different forms of court sociability, the one from the outside, the other from the inside. 14 From 1768 to 1785, while settled in London, she …
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