Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]
… Baillie, documented through letters, which provided her with support. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Bluestockings Correspondence Literature Travel Theatre Mary Berry (1763-1852) headed and participated in sociable circles in … as modest and unpretentious. 3 Not grandes fêtes but smaller invitations, especially breakfasts and dinners, were the kind of entertainments that she hosted. When she and her sister were in London, they lived and entertained in North … 1825 onwards, in Curzon Street. Berry, herself an avid reader, who studied Greek, stood in the tradition of the bluestockings, which she helped to preserve into the nineteenth century, but she was not close enough to the original …
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