Patrick Delany

Standard Name: Delany, Patrick
Used Form: Rev. Dr Delany

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Birth Mary Barber
The future MB was born.
If Patrick Delany was right when he thought her fifty, her birth was more like 1681;
Isdell-Carpenter, Andrew. “On a manuscript of poems catalogued as by Mary Barber in the Library of TCD”. Hermathena, Vol.
109
, pp. 54-64.
56-7
but in eighteenth-century thinking fifty, for a woman, was almost the next stage after thirty.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., University of Georgia Press.
391-2
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Delany
The upper-class, forty-three-year-old widow Mary Pendarves defied family disapproval to marry Dr Patrick Delany , a high-ranking churchman whose father had been a servant; she called him D. D.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Hayden, Ruth. Mrs. Delany: Her Life and Her Flowers. British Museum.
58
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Delany
MD was widowed a second time by Patrick Delany 's death.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Barber
He had given up his shop by summer 1732, and three years later was working as a property agent for Patrick Delany . Though he is generally said to have died in 1733, he in...
Friends, Associates Mary Delany
In the category of Irish wits she included Jonathan Swift , Constantia Grierson and Laetitia Pilkington . Though Pilkington's closeness to Swift was an important point in her favour, MD was still demonstrating a certain...
Friends, Associates Constantia Grierson
CG was a friend from their adolescence of the young women who became the poets Mary Barber and Laetitia Pilkington . Their shared friendship with Jonathan Swift has been an element in preserving some memory...
Health Constantia Grierson
There is little contemporary comment about CG 's health that might foreshadow her early death, probably still in her twenties. Only a poem by Patrick Delany , a member of her circle, jokingly mentions her...
Publishing Sarah Chapone
Some time before 1749, SC sent some theological writings to the Rev. Patrick Delany , whose published work she admired. He urged her to publish, but she wanted first to gain approval from Charles Lyttelton...
Publishing Constantia Grierson
CG 's poem The Goddess Envy to Dr. D—l—y was anonymously published at Dublin; it was attributed to her only recently, when a draft was identified in her manuscript book.
Elias, A. C. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, pp. 33-56.
46, 55
Reception Mary Delany
George Ballard honoured MD with the dedication of the second volume of his Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, 1752, calling her the truest judge and brightest pattern
Thaddeus, Janice. “Mary Delany, Model to the Age”. History, Gender & Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited by Beth Fowkes Tobin, University of Georgia Press, pp. 113-40.
135
of female accomplishments. She...
Textual Features Laetitia Pilkington
It is hard to explain the charm of LP 's Memoirs. They could hardly be appreciated as long as the clear division held between the ideas of a respectable and a fallen woman. Pilkington...
Textual Features Sarah Chapone
These concessions still leave her space for militancy. If the law exacts submission from wives it ought to exact fair treatment from husbands, or it goes further than the Bible allows. Those marriages where the...
Textual Production Mary Barber
Patrick Delany helped Swift and other friends edit the collection for the press, and wrote a poem about the process.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., University of Georgia Press.
283
In October of this year the book was mentioned as being already in press...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Constantia Grierson
Here she extols Delany 's virtues in the voice of the goddess who hates and resents them (and who is presumed to be behind the recent attacks on Delany stemming from his friendship with Swift)...

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