Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications.
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Mary Berry
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Standard Name: Berry, Mary
Used Form: Miss Berry
Used Form: the editor of Madame Du Deffand's letters
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | She told Mary Berry
that she hoped she would not give offence, since she wrote with humble boldness, regarding God & not man. |
| Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | The Critical Review assumed the author was male. It thought the versification monotonous but warmly praised both preface and plays. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 24 (1798): 1-22 |
| Reception | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry
took the lead in promoting the volume. Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. ix - xiv, 1. 11 |
| Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry
and Anne Damer
both offered comments and revisions four years before this play was published. Lady Louisa Stuart
did the same (through Walter Scott) in 1809. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 158-9, 244 Slagle, editor of JB |
| Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | Through her friendship with Mary Berry
, JB
met Germaine de Staël
. Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Archon Books. 45 |
| Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | JB
sent her friend Mary Berry
a prologue for Fashionable Friends, Berry's play produced at Drury Lane
by Anne Damer
in 1802; she also wrote an epilogue for it. Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. ix - xiv, 1. 2n7, 3 Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 153n2 |
| Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | JB
wrote for a friend a manuscript Recollections Written at the Request of Miss Berry; the manuscript remains in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons
. Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, pp. 1-25. 5 and n17 |
| Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | Over the course of her long life JB
made dozens of well-loved friends, many of them either professional writers like herself or else writing amateurs. They included Lucy Aikin
, Mary Berry
, Eliza Fletcher |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Eleanor Butler | Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward
, Henrietta Maria Bowdler
(who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB
as her veillard [sic] or old... |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Callcott | In Richmond and elsewhere MC
met emigrés fleeing the French Revolution. She also met a number of women who wrote: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, Mary
and Agnes Berry
, and Anne Damer
. In... |
| Textual Features | Lydia Maria Child | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Camilla Crosland | CC
's mother was born Sarah Wright
. She was descended from the Berry family (that of woman of letters Mary Berry
and her sister Agnes
). When her husband died she began running a... |
| Textual Production | Anne Damer | The Lewis Walpole Library
holds four volumes of AD
's notebooks, containing extracts from her own letters addressed to a woman who must be Mary Berry
, thirteen complete letters from her to Horace Walpole |
| Textual Production | Anne Damer | AD
regularly gave away copies of her work to female friends, sometimes as wedding presents. Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 109 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Damer | Mary Berry
(whose social and financial position was precarious) wrote to AD
in a panic to enjoin caution in face of an apparent public charge that they were lovers. Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 104, 105 |
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Texts
Berry, Mary. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry. Editor Lewis, Lady Theresa, Longmans, Green, 1865.
Berry, Mary, and Lady Rachel Russell. Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley Lady Russell. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819.