Frances Boscawen
planted people in the audience briefed to lead the applause. The audience in fact loved the play, and its low number of performances is ascribed by HM
's biographer M. G. Jones
to...
Leisure and Society
Hannah More
Frances Boscawen
commissioned another portrait of her, by John Opie
(husband of Amelia Opie).
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
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Friends, Associates
Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan
She was a well-known figure in London cultural circles, particularly that of the Bluestockings. Charles Burney
called her at-home evenings blue conversazioni's and Horace Walpole
called them quite Mazarine-blue. Others specifically mentioned in...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Montagu
The leading figures in the movement were Montagu herself (who spent freely in hospitality, and who was later dubbed the Queen of the Bluestockings or Queen of the Blues) and Carter
(the most intellectually...
Friends, Associates
Hannah More
Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke
in Bristol the previous September...