Mary Baroness Hervey

GM died at sixty-seven. Her friend Lady Hervey reported that she had every sense and faculty as perfect as at twenty-seven (indignantly rejecting the would-be consoling idea that her friend had lived long enough).

At almost every stage of GM 's life, her family had the habit of spending part of their time at their London house, where she evidently moved in literary as well as fashionable circles. She...

DC 's birth family had accustomed her to moving in literary, political, and theatrical circles, and her friends included Mary Lady Hervey , David Hume , David Garrick , and Edward Gibbon . Her father...

Lady Mary Hervey (the former Molly Lepel), one of GM 's dearest and oldest friends since their youth in London, made a journey to Scotland to stay with her.

JWC became a lawyer, (moving from Ireland to London after the Act of Union) a Tory MP, an editor of several eighteenth-century texts (including letters by Lady Hervey and by Henrietta Howard, Lady Suffolk )...