Wesley, John. The Works of John Wesley. Clarendon; Oxford University Press, 1975–1983.
25: 280
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Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Chapone | SC
's daughter Sally, to whom Mary Delany
and her sister
were both godparents, was probably born in spring 1731. Wesley, John. The Works of John Wesley. Clarendon; Oxford University Press, 1975–1983. 25: 280 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Delany | MD
's younger sister, who became Anne Dewes
, was her close friend and lifelong correspondent. While they were both young, however, and Mary pursuing her close friendship with Sarah Kirkham (later Chapone), she was... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Chapone | SC
's friendship with John Wesley
continued after her marriage, and included Wesley's brother Charles
, Mary Pendarves (later Delany)
, and Mary's sister Anne Granville
, who stayed at her house for a week... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Delany | In Gloucestershire Mary Pendarves found herself the neighbour of Sarah Kirkham (later Sarah Chapone)
. They became close friends. Other members of their circle (besides Mary's sister Anne
) were Charles
and especially John Wesley |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Elstob | She later told Anne Dewes
that she blamed herself for having neglected several overtures of acquaintance, especially the one which |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Elstob | By this time, however, she was acquiring a circle of patrons. She had met Sarah Chapone
, parson's wife and proto-feminist, who this same year published her anonymous, hard-hitting The Hardships of the English Laws... |
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 |
Textual Production | Mary Delany | MD
wrote for her sister
a moral romance, Marianna, set among the contemporary upper classes; it was never published. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Textual Production | Mary Delany | There are sixty-four letters from and fifty letters to MD
's sister, Anne Dewes
, among the Montagu Papers in the Huntington Library
. Her correspondence from her years in Windsor, some of it unpublished... |
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