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's writing was unpublished in her lifetime during the eighteenth century, but letters, occasional poems, and other writings (a libretto, a romance) were as much part of her daily life as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.
Connections
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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... |
Friends, Associates | Laetitia Pilkington | LP
's friendship with Constantia Grierson
had begun before her marriage. Both she and her husband were friends and protegées of Swift
, and she met and entertained the future Mary Delany
on the latter's... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Herschel | Though CH
recorded in summer 1774 that she had lost her only female acquaintance (apparently because her work for her brother left her no time for social life), she later met Charles
and Frances Burney |
Friends, Associates | Jonathan Swift | Swift helped and befriended a number of women writers. He was a patron of Mary Barber
, Constantia Grierson
, an unidentified Mrs Sican
, Mary Davys
, and Laetitia Pilkington
, a colleague of... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Miller | Anna Riggs (later |
Friends, Associates | Jane Williams | JW
became a member of the literary circle of Augusta Hall, later Lady Llanover
(who is known as a patron of Lady Charlotte Guest
and as editor of Mary Delany
's autobiography and correspondence). Fraser, Maxwell. “Jane Williams (Ysgafell) 1806-1885”. Brycheiniog, Vol. 7 , pp. 95-114. 102 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Augusta Hall |
Friends, Associates | Mary Barber | MB
was a close friend of Constantia Grierson
. Her friendship with Jonathan Swift
endured many vicissitudes; that with Laetitia Pilkington
did not survive her apparently siding with Pilkington's husband
when the couple fell out... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | The leading figures in the movement were Montagu herself (who spent freely in hospitality, and who was later dubbed the Queen of the Bluestockings or Queen of the Blues) and Carter
(the most intellectually... |
Friends, Associates | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana did not restrict herself to this circle. She made some eminent older friends in the world of literature and culture, like Mary Delany
, Elizabeth Montagu
, and Samuel Johnson
. From 1777 she... |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke
in Bristol the previous September... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Elstob | By this time, however, she was acquiring a circle of patrons. She had met Sarah Chapone
, parson's wife and proto-feminist, who this same year published her anonymous, hard-hitting The Hardships of the English Laws... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Chapone | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amelia Opie | This was John Opie's second marriage; his first wife had deserted him and their marriage had been dissolved by act of parliament. The second marriage remained childless. John Opie had been enjoying professional success in... |
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