The title comes from the work's refrain: Lament Her. Subscribers included the Duchesses of Queensberry
and of Marlborough
. Among various prefatory pieces, To the Reader speculates that the writer's cruel father may read...
Timeline
February 1741: Mary Pendarves (later Delany) wrote of her...
Building item
February 1741
Mary Pendarves (later Delany)
wrote of her friend the Duchess of Queensberry
's court dress representing botanically exact flowers of many species, with the banks and tree-stumps they grew on.
