Agnes Berry

The painter and diarist Joseph Faringdon commented on AD 's wearing men's clothes, as well as on the ecstacy of meeting and the agony of parting between her and the two MissBerry s.

MB died at 8 Curzon Street London at the age of eighty-nine, having survived her sister by ten months.

MB 's sister, Agnes Berry , was born in May 1764. She was close to MB throughout her life, and they frequently travelled together. In old age MB would talk often of...

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...

MB 's sister Agnes died, having been failing for some time. Mary was heartbroken, but after a while she continued to entertain the little circle of their shared friends.

The Berrys met Walpole in winter 1787-8, some months before July 1788, when they settled at Twickenham Common, close to his gothic mansion, Strawberry Hill. He was a little past seventy, set...

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...

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...

AD 's wide circle of friends included Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , Lady Melbourne , Joanna Baillie , Sarah Siddons , the Berrysisters , the dramatist Lady Elizabeth Craven (formerly Berkeley, later Margravine of Anspach)

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...

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...

MS and her family took up residence for the season at 6 Curzon Street, London, next to their friends Mary and Agnes Berry .

The plot exposes false female friendship in the person of Lady Selina Vapour (played by Damer ). Lady Selina is capricious, and bored when alone with Mrs Lovell (played by MB ). Scholar Andrew Elfenbein

MB brought Walpole two quatrains written in reply to his classical-style verse compliment to her and her sister .

Lewis Melville edited and published The Berry Papers: Being the Correspondence Hitherto Unpublished of Mary and Agnes Berry , 1763-1852.