Mary Berry

Hamilton, herself a conservative, set about de-demonizing EF 's political reputation. She had good success in persuading her friends that Mrs Fletcher was not the ferocious Democrat she had been represented, and that she neither...

EH 's probably full social life has left few traces. She is mentioned twice among Mary Berry 's circle in 1791, and Berry paid her the oblique compliment of calling her Mrs. Pompoustown Hervey after...

HM 's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to...

By the time of the Great Exhibition AO was confined to a wheelchair. She did not, however, allow this to damp her spirits, but is said to have proposed a race with Mary Berry ...

More lays her heaviest emphasis on the need for observing propriety. She expresses her belief in original sin, and devotes a chapter to human corruption; but this deals also with salvation. While she...

The Critical Review assumed the author was male. It thought the versification monotonous but warmly praised both preface and plays. Initial reaction from individuals (mostly favourable) concentrated on the puzzle of authorship...

CF 's immediately posthumous reputation rested, like her writings themselves, on oral tradition. She had the admiration of William Cowper and Walter Scott , as well as Joanna Baillie , Anne Grant , and Mary Berry

As love-letters, they made a great and immediate impression on their readers. Yet later this year Mary Russell Mitford wrote of LRR with dislike. Mitford found her heavy, preachy, and prosy. As a writer, she...

AD appeared in private theatricals first at her brother-in-law the Duke of Richmond 's, and later at Strawberry Hill. In November 1800 she delivered Joanna Baillie 's Epilogue to the Theatrical Representation at...

Again this work generated both a flood of praise (much of it in letters, some coming from religious leaders or from royalty) and a storm of criticism and abuse. The Bishop of London...

Mary Berry took the lead in promoting the volume. Editing De Monfort for her British Theatre in 1808, Elizabeth Inchbald wrote of the hero as a lunatic possessing every vice which pride engenders, yet...

MS and her family took up residence for the season at 6 Curzon Street, London, next to their friends Mary and Agnes Berry .

One of the poems, a delightful Ode which imitates or parodies several well-known passages in various works by Gray , was written not by CF but by her friend Mary Berry , some time before...

LMC 's first four subjects were all known for their writings and for their resistance to tyrannical authority, either political or religious, but she is more interested here in what she alleges to have been...

Mary Berry mentions a sort of review of her life written by LRR in old age, lamenting her lack of fervour in religious belief and particularly her inability to arrive at a perfect state of...