Hester Thrale
was an exception to the consensus of opinion (shared by Johnson) that FR
was indecisive: she wrote admiringly of FR's presence of mind in saving a dinner party threatened by the bad behaviour...
Publishing
Frances Reynolds
Many of FR
's poems surviving in her commonplace-book (now in the possession of a collateral descendant, with a microfiche copy at Yale Center for British Art
) date from the late 1760s. Bennet Langton
