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's writing was unpublished in her lifetime during the eighteenth century, but letters, occasional poems, and other writings (a libretto, a romance) were as much part of her daily life as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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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 | 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/. |
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. |
Wealth and Poverty | Hester Mulso Chapone | She was left to comparative poverty; her uncle the bishop paid her an allowance of £20 a year. After her father's death in 1763 her financial situation somewhat improved. But when her uncle in turn... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Chapone | In her teens Sarah Kirkham developed a close friendship with a girl of her own age, Mary Granville (later Delany)
, who called her Sappho and described her like this. She had an uncommon genius... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Chapone | |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Chapone | SC
's friendship with John Wesley
continued after her marriage, and included Wesley's brother Charles
, Mary Pendarves (later Delany)
, and Mary's sister Anne Granville
, who stayed at her house for a week... |
Textual Production | Sarah Chapone | Both Mary Pendarves (later Mary Delany)
and John Wesley
had read this remarkable work in manuscript the previous year. (Wesley had been reading her writing with enjoyment since at least April 1733.) Glover, Susan Paterson, and Sarah Chapone. “Introduction”. The Hardships of the English Laws, Routledge, pp. 1-16. 11 |
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... |
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/. |
Textual Production | Sarah Chapone | SC
had an important role in George Ballard
's pioneering work of women's history and women's biography. She introduced him to an even more important influence, Elizabeth Elstob
; she helped in his research; and... |
Literary responses | Jane Cave | |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Frances Burney | Among those whom FB
met through the Thrales' hospitable house at Streatham were members of the Bluestocking circle. Through Hester Chapone
she met Mary Delany
, and a real friendship developed despite the more than... |
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