Mary Berry

The editor of the first, lavishly-produced edition of this history recommended it particularly to female readers, as more entertaining than most novels. He also silently cut from it about 9,000 words, besides tinkering with the...

HM 's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to...

Among her subjects are Lady Byron (an occasion for HM to deplore Byron 's conduct and influence), Mary Berry , Mary Russell Mitford , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Marcet , Amelia Opie , Mary Somerville

On 23 June, when the poem was newly written, he requested permission to print these copies, of which she should have half for her own distribution. His correspondence with HM and with Mary Berry over...

More lays her heaviest emphasis on the need for observing propriety. She expresses her belief in original sin, and devotes a chapter to human corruption; but this deals also with salvation. While she...

Again this work generated both a flood of praise (much of it in letters, some coming from religious leaders or from royalty) and a storm of criticism and abuse. The Bishop of London...

By the time of the Great Exhibition AO was confined to a wheelchair. She did not, however, allow this to damp her spirits, but is said to have proposed a race with Mary Berry ...

In later years AR was a friend of Mary Berry .

ER appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy , where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron (Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray . At London parties...

The Blackstick Papers treat a wide range of topics; three of the thirteen concern women writers, and the book's frontispiece is from a miniature of Felicia Hemans . ATR notes the stoicism of Mary Berry

LRR wrote the first of the thirty letters to her husband that survived for Mary Berry to publish in 1819.

Mary Berry published a brief biography of LRR , with some unpublished letters including thirty to her husband .

Mary Berry , who wrote that LRR spent her youth in those occupations which it has been agreed to call the education of females, was misplacing her feminist indignation. It has been said that...

As love-letters, they made a great and immediate impression on their readers. Yet later this year Mary Russell Mitford wrote of LRR with dislike. Mitford found her heavy, preachy, and prosy. As a writer, she...

Mary Berry mentions a sort of review of her life written by LRR in old age, lamenting her lack of fervour in religious belief and particularly her inability to arrive at a perfect state of...