Mary Berry

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Standard Name: Berry, Mary
Used Form: Miss Berry
Used Form: the editor of Madame Du Deffand's letters
MB participated in the English literary scene from the 1780s to the 1820s. She edited collections of letters, had a play produced and published, wrote two books comparing the social and cultural climates of England and France, and was a lifelong diary-keeper and correspondent. From the point of view of literary history, her most interesting achievment is perhaps a side effect of her editorial projects: recovery of life-writing by seventeenth-century women.
Stipple engraving, head and shoulders, of Mary Berry aged 86, by John Henry Robinson after a painting by James Rannie Swinton, published 1850. She looks at the viewer, wearing a white frilled cap and collar with a black bow and pearl drop earring. Her still-dark hair under her cap is parted in the middle, with ringlets at the side, and she is wearing a large drop earring. Below the portrait is written "M. Berry aet [aged] 86." National Portrait Gallery, London.

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Thackeray Ritchie
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
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Blackstick Papers. Books for Libraries Press, 1969.
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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...

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