Mary Delany
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Standard Name: Delany, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Granville
Married Name: Mary Pendarves
Married Name: Mary Delany
Pseudonym: Aspasia
Indexed Name: Mrs Delany
MD
's writing was unpublished in her lifetime during the eighteenth century, but letters, occasional poems, and other writings (a libretto, a romance) were as much part of her daily life as her art works. Little except her letters survives.
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Publishing | Elizabeth Carter | The book had gone to press in June 1757. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Occupation | Frances Burney | FB
betook herself, with a visit en route to Mary Delany
, to begin her work as Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte
. Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press. 171 |
Occupation | Frances Burney | Once FB
had met the king and queen, through Mary Delany
, her father expended much effort to secure her a court position. He thought of it as a triumph. She, on the other hand... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Elstob | The duchess was the only child of Edward Harley
(later Lord Oxford), whose manuscript collection EE
had used in her youth. It was Mary Pendarves, later Delany
, who arranged this, as the only post... |
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. 99-100 |
Literary responses | Anne Finch | Barbara McGovern
has disposed (hopefully once and for all) of the mistaken story of Pope
's hostility to AF
. In fact, they shared a literary friendship which Finch found valuable. McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press. 102ff |
Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | In the Monthly Review, Ralph Griffiths
passed a judgement which was inflected against Betsy Thoughtless by issues of gender. He guessed that the author was female because of the novel's attention to matters of... |
Literary responses | Sarah Chapone | Mary Delany
, who read this work in manuscript, called it ingenious (in that word's old-fashioned meaning of learned or scholarly), but thought that the legal aspect still needed revision. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Sarah Chapone | Mary Delany
said SCwould shine in an assembly composed of Tully
s, Homer
s, and Milton
s. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Anna Miller | Her publisher, Charles Dilly
, praised the work and its philanthropic author for animated warmth so honestly avowed. Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press. 195 |
Literary responses | Alison Cockburn | Her literary image has been entwined with that of Scotland's romantic history and landscape. Sarah Tytler
(Henrietta Keddie) and Jean L. Watson
in The Songstresses of Scotland, 1871, delighted in the idea of her... |
Literary responses | Jane Cave | |
Leisure and Society | Ann Thicknesse | Thomas Gainsborough
, a family friend, painted her as an unmarried woman in an eye-catching pose in 1760. This portrait has become famous and is often reproduced. Gainsborough decided against exhibiting it publicly, but Mary Delany |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | COCE
opens by making two points which might seem at variance with each other: the fascination which the past holds for later generations, and their ignorance of its discomforts and inconvenience. In a note she... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hester Mulso Chapone | HMC
published A Letter to a New-Married Lady: a pamphlet-sized book on a subject suggested by Mary Delany
. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
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