SLC
also writes of topical events in social, political, and religious circles. Though she resolves against repeating gossip, she often does so (generally with names concealed). When she records hearing gossip (for instance, that a...
MC
shared her husband's network of high-level connections in circles of Jacobites
and Jacobite sympathisers. She was a friend of the writers Pope
, Prior
, Swift
, and Mary Barber
, and of the...