Mary Berry

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.

In the first winter of her widowhood AD went abroad to study art. Later she escaped newspaper harrassment by travelling to Italy: Rome and Florence (where she met Walpole's friend Horace Mann ). This voyage...

Literary historian Andrew Elfenbein argues that these attacks formed part of a general assault on the morals of the aristocracy. AD stepped up her artistic activities during the next decade, and this rendered her liable...

AD appeared in private theatricals first at her brother-in-law the Duke of Richmond 's, and later at Strawberry Hill. In November 1800 she delivered Joanna Baillie 's Epilogue to the Theatrical Representation at...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Through her friendship with Mary Berry , JB met Germaine de Staël .

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.

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 .

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

She told Mary Berry that she hoped she would not give offence, since she wrote with humble boldness, regarding God & not man. Her full title is Poems: Wherein it is attempted to describe...

The Critical Review assumed the author was male. It thought the versification monotonous but warmly praised both preface and plays. Initial reaction from individuals (mostly favourable) concentrated on the puzzle of authorship...

Mary Berry took the lead in promoting the volume. Editing De Monfort for her British Theatre in 1808, Elizabeth Inchbald wrote of the hero as a lunatic possessing every vice which pride engenders, yet...