In the early years of her second widowhood, MD
took to staying half the year with the Duchess of Portland
at her estate at Bulstrode Park in Buckinghamshire.
Linney, Verna. “A Passion for Art, a Passion for Botany: Mary Delany and her Floral ’Mosaiks’”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
1
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213, 216
She spent her winters...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Delany
She began using the new technique in 1772. The idea of the collection dates from 1774, but she included in it a few representations made before that. She titled the volumes Plants copied after Nature...
Cultural formation
Mary Delany
In Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes, 2011, Lisa L. Moore
classified MD
, along with the Duchess of Portland
, Anna Seward
, and the American Sarah Pierce
(1767-1852), as lesbian-like women...
Friends, Associates
Mary Delany
As an unusually talented woman moving in fashionable and high-culture circles, the future MD
knew almost everybody of interest during her lifetime, including literary celebrities. She was a good friend of the Bluestocking group, and...
Textual Production
Lady Anne Clifford
She probably kept it for far longer than these surviving years; the original may have been destroyed by her grandson. The extant passages, probably first transcribed during her lifetime, are known from an eighteenth-century copy...
Textual Production
Lady Anne Clifford
LAC
was helped with her literary labours by several scribes, notably one Edward Langley
. Of the four copies which she dictated and kept at various of her residences, one survives, corrected by herself: in...