Berry, Mary. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry. Editor Lewis, Lady Theresa, Longmans, Green.
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Textual Production | Lucy Hutchinson | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hervey | EH
's probably full social life has left few traces. She is mentioned twice among Mary Berry
's circle in 1791, and Berry paid her the oblique compliment of calling her Mrs. Pompoustown Hervey after... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Fletcher | Hamilton, herself a conservative, set about de-demonizing EF
's political reputation. She had good success in persuading her friends that Mrs Fletcher was not the ferocious Democrat she had been represented, and that she neither... |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Fanshawe | CF
's friends included other highly literate middle-class women such as Mary Berry
and Anne Grant
in Edinburgh. (Her friendship with Grant was maintained entirely by correspondence—she and her sisters hoped to visit Edinburgh in... |
Textual Production | Catherine Fanshawe | Mary Berry
's Journals and Correspondence, posthumously published in 1865, added another minor poem to CF
'surviving canon: The Country Cat. Berry, Mary. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry. Editor Lewis, Lady Theresa, Longmans, Green. 3: 526-8 |
Textual Features | Catherine Fanshawe | |
Literary responses | Catherine Fanshawe | CF
's immediately posthumous reputation rested, like her writings themselves, on oral tradition. She had the admiration of William Cowper
and Walter Scott
, as well as Joanna Baillie
, Anne Grant
, and Mary Berry |
Friends, Associates | Maria Edgeworth | By now ME
was a celebrity, and could count on being introduced to the local literati when she travelled. On this visit to London she finally met Etiénne Dumont
, the utilitarian, with whom she... |
Textual Production | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | DSCS
was close to her son-in-law, and continued a correspondence with him years after her daughter's death. Her letters to Halifax were published by Mary Berry
in 1819, together with the letters of Lady Rachel Russell |
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 |
Travel | Anne Damer | 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... |
Cultural formation | Anne Damer | 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... |
Occupation | Anne Damer | AD
appeared in private theatricals first at her brother-in-law the Duke of Richmond
's, and later at Strawberry Hill. Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 97 |
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