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MD 's writing was unpublished in her lifetime during the eighteenth century, but letters, occasional poems, and other writings (a libretto, a romance) were as much part of her daily life as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.
Portrait of Mary Delany, by John Opie, 1782. Her face and grey hair are enclosed by a white cap; she wears a dark cloak with a hood, white linen at her neckline, and a pendant.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1998.
99-100
Publishing Sarah Lady Pennington
She appended her signature in the same form as before, S. Pennington, to her preface. The subscribers are a highly impressive collection in terms of social status; few writers subscribed and those, like Lord Chesterfield
Publishing Elizabeth Carter
The book had gone to press in June 1757.
Feminist Companion Archive.
The original press run of 1,018 copies had to be supplemented with a further 250. First of several more editions was the Dublin one of the...
Publishing Sarah Fielding
The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret . Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF 's local and family connections: Ralph Allen , Lord Chesterfield
Publishing Mary Leapor
The arrangements for publication had not been entirely smooth sailing. ML was insulted when Freemantle predicted that the book might make her £10.
Rizzo, Betty. “Molly Leapor: An Anxiety for Influence”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
4
, 1991, pp. 313-43.
322
Freemantle was nevertheless instrumental in persuading her to publish and in...
Textual Features Jan Morris
A Writer's House in Wales takes her home, Trefan Morys (originally the stables of Plas Trefan) as a focal point (or rather a summation, a metaphor, a paradigm, a microcosm, an exemplar, a multum in...
Textual Features Margaret Bingham Countess Lucan
Although Sir Joshua Reynolds supposed MBCL insufficiently skilled as an artist to manage history painting,
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
8: 238
and Rose E. McCalmont in Memoirs of the Binghams, 1915, was dismissive about her artistic work, Horace Walpole
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 George Paston
GP issued the first of her historical works about the eighteenth century: Mrs. Delany (Mary Granville) : A Memoir, 1700-1788, a study of the letter-writer and memoirist who was also a major artist in...
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, 2018, pp. 1-16.
11
Both Pendarves
Textual Production Charlotte Smith
It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children...
Textual Production Elizabeth Montagu
EM 's correspondents over the course of her life included Dr John Gregory , Eliza Berkeley , Mary Delany , Ann Donellan , and Hester Thrale , besides the Duchess of Portland, Sarah Scott, and...
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...

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