Mary Delany
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Standard Name: Delany, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Granville
Married Name: Mary Pendarves
Married Name: Mary Delany
Pseudonym: Aspasia
Indexed Name: Mrs Delany
MD
's writing was unpublished in her lifetime during the eighteenth century, but letters, occasional poems, and other writings (a libretto, a romance) were as much part of her daily life as her art works. Little except her letters survives.
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Occupation | Frances Burney | Once FB
had met the king and queen, through Mary Delany
, her father expended much effort to secure her a court position. He thought of it as a triumph. She, on the other hand... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Elstob | The duchess was the only child of Edward Harley
(later Lord Oxford), whose manuscript collection EE
had used in her youth. It was Mary Pendarves, later Delany
, who arranged this, as the only post... |
Occupation | Sarah Fielding | SF
declined an invitation to work as a governess to the young daughter of Anne Dewes
(sister of Mary Delany
). Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford, 1998. 99-100 |
Publishing | Sarah Lady Pennington | She appended her signature in the same form as before, S. Pennington, to her preface. The subscribers are a highly impressive collection in terms of social status; few writers subscribed and those, like Lord Chesterfield |
Publishing | Elizabeth Carter | The book had gone to press in June 1757. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Publishing | Sarah Fielding | The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret
. Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF
's local and family connections: Ralph Allen
, Lord Chesterfield |
Publishing | Mary Leapor | The arrangements for publication had not been entirely smooth sailing. ML
was insulted when Freemantle predicted that the book might make her £10. Rizzo, Betty. “Molly Leapor: An Anxiety for Influence”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol. 4 , 1991, pp. 313-43. 322 |
Textual Features | Sarah Chapone | These concessions still leave her space for militancy. If the law exacts submission from wives it ought to exact fair treatment from husbands, or it goes further than the Bible allows. Those marriages where the... |
Textual Features | Jan Morris | A Writer's House in Wales takes her home, Trefan Morys (originally the stables of Plas Trefan) as a focal point (or rather a summation, a metaphor, a paradigm, a microcosm, an exemplar, a multum in... |
Textual Features | Margaret Bingham Countess Lucan | Although Sir Joshua Reynolds
supposed MBCL
insufficiently skilled as an artist to manage history painting, Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols. 8: 238 |
Textual Production | Sarah Chapone | Both Mary Pendarves (later Mary Delany)
and John Wesley
had read this remarkable work in manuscript the previous year. (Wesley had been reading her writing with enjoyment since at least April 1733.) Glover, Susan Paterson, and Sarah Chapone. “Introduction”. The Hardships of the English Laws, Routledge, 2018, pp. 1-16. 11 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Smith | It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard
did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
's correspondents over the course of her life included Dr John Gregory
, Eliza Berkeley
, Mary Delany
, Ann Donellan
, and Hester Thrale
, besides the Duchess of Portland, Sarah Scott, and... |
Textual Production | Sarah Chapone | SC
had an important role in George Ballard
's pioneering work of women's history and women's biography. She introduced him to an even more important influence, Elizabeth Elstob
; she helped in his research; and... |
Textual Production | George Paston | GP
issued the first of her historical works about the eighteenth century: Mrs. Delany (Mary Granville)
: A Memoir, 1700-1788, a study of the letter-writer and memoirist who was also a major artist in... |
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