Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]
… time in the vicinity of Strawberry Hill. She became the posthumous editor of Walpole's correspondence, and authored two plays as well as historiographical works. She met a large number of literati, artists, and politicians and cultivated friendships with Walpole, the sculptor Anne Damer, and the playwright Joanna Baillie, documented through letters, which provided her with support. People > Art and Literature … letters (1810) and Lady Rachel Russell's letters in combination with a biography that she had authored (1819). 5 Her play, Fashionable Friends , was first privately performed at Strawberry Hill in 1801 and then in 1802 in Drury Lane, …
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