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...Alison E. Martin Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg-Roberts, eds. Mrs. Delany and Her Circle (New Haven: Yale Univ., 2009). Pp. 283. 10 b/w + 267 color ills. £40 Duke University Press 2011 Review Essay Society, Creativity, and Science: Mrs...

...Mascha Hansen Michael Kassler , gen. ed. Memoirs of the Court of George III , 4 vols: vol. 1: The Memoirs of Charlotte Papendiek (1765–1840) , ed. Kassler ; vol. 2: Mary Delany (1700–1788) and the Court of King George III , ed. Alain Kerhervé ; vol. 3: The Diary of Lucy...

... of the day for herself; and her keen awareness, even through the miasma of her own unhappiness, of the absurdities of her new world. They also reveal the aspects of this world that sustain her: her friendship with Mary Granville Delany, whose correspondence with such writers as Swift, Burney helped...

... of sweetness, sense, and dignity (2: 310). Invoking almost the precise phrase that Sir Walter Scott used, Burney describes Mary Delany as hav- ing “little remains of beauty” in old age (2:304). But Burney, unlike Scott, frequently couples her descriptions of relative physical beauty in old age...

... of me so little to her satisfaction, that it had taken from her all desire ever to see me, till she heard of me again from Mrs. Delany.1 Seeing Burney at Mrs. Delany’s, however, helped to convince the queen that giving her “such a character in the World” was “unjust, & . . . injuri- ous...

... Mary Delany on 15 April 1788. As with Susan s death, Burney left scant account of her immedi- ate impressions: I have scarce a memorandum of this fatal month, in which I was bereft of the most revered of Friends & perhaps the most perfect of women! 8 She exchanged short letters with Mrs. Delany s...

...; poets and authors Thomas Edwards and Edward Young; the Irish clergyman and writer Patrick Delany, and his wife and artist Mary Delany. A set of young female correspondents includes the writers Hester Mulso (later Chapone), Sarah Fielding, and Jane Collier, as well as Susanna Highmore, daughter...

..., and George Culley. Farming Letters, 1798 – 1804, ed. Anne Orde. (Rochester: Boydell, 2006). Pp. 625. $85. ISBN 0-85444-065-8 Delany, Patrick. The Poems of Patrick Delany: Comprising Also Poems About Him by Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, and Other Friends and Enemies, ed. Robert Hogan...

... of another. (p.113) Already, the assumption that the moderation of “excessive and arbitrary power” was a necessary condition for “justice and utility” is worlds removed from conduct-book writer Patrick Delany who upheld filial obe- dience as one...

... relationship with Burney, and he seems to be blaming Burney for spread- ing rumors. Again, one of Burney’s closest friends is singled out. Charlotte mentions that “when Ly. Willoughby got to London, she found it necessary to set Mrs. Delany right on the same subject” Burney is forced to admit that she...

... ways. Swift preemptively validates his vexatious style of plundering a panoply of sources (from high, Virgil and Horace, to low, Patrick Delany and Laurence Eusden) in order to purify his own remains in an ironic temple of shame. In chapter 6, “Swift's Remains,” Cook considers some of Swift's best...

... by a Catholic priest. (Mary Delany told Charles Burney that that had been the only way Peterborough could cause her to succumb to his blandishments.) Every- one agrees that Robinson was a lovely woman of the most scrupulous moral principles, to whom it must have been...

... devoted to correspon- dence with women: Sarah Wescomb, Laetitia Pilkington, and Frances Grainger in volume 4, also edited by Dussinger; the extended Chapone and Mulso families, including Swift’s and Frances Burney’s long-­lived cor- respondent Mary Delany, in volume 5; and the massive correspondence...

... to mention Carter infrequently throughout her journals and letters until 1798, the period when Carter's health began to decline. As for Chapone, Burney gratefully acknowledged her role in introducing her to Mary Delany, who became one of her closest friends. 22 Years later, in a letter of 9 January 1794...

... following. One brother walker, Patrick Delany, writes that Swift found in walking an “opportunity of examining into the condition of every poor person he met. Which he did, with so well-practiced a sagacity, as could seldom be imposed upon.” Accordingly, Swift set a fine example: “And every man...

.... $24.95 paper Kramnick, Jonathan. Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson (Stanford: Stanford Univ., 2010). Pp. x + 307. $65 hardcover. $29.95 paper Laird, Mark and Alicia Weisberg-­Roberts, eds. Mrs. Delany and Her Circle (New Haven: Yale Univ., 2009). Pp. 283. 10 b/w + 267 color...

... that they bear the sometimes onerous domestic burden of reading aloud. One has only to remember Mary Delany, who never left her old husband when he was in the gout but sat reading to him, shivering, for three hours at a time because he could not bear a fi re.16 Improper reading aloud was a great annoyance...

... in the discussions about West Wycombe Park is a fact (Ross, 70). Perhaps Jane Austen grew up, like Mary Delany’s great niece, Mary Hamilton, hearing the Hell-Fire Club stories from older relatives.25 Handi- capped by the lack of a journal and the incomplete nature of Jane Austen’s surviving letters, which...

...-in companion to a wealthy noblewoman or lady of distinction, permanently or even for a few months each year — as Elizabeth Montagu and Mary Delany did with the Duchess of Portland, as Sarah Scott did with Lady Barbara Montagu, or as Elizabeth Carter did with Elizabeth Montagu — and to be treated...

... and disputed theory of the “secret marriage” between Esther John- son and Swift undoubtedly added to the emphasis on “Stella” as recipient: Swift’s earliest biographers, Orrery, Deane Swift, Delany, and Sheridan, had all claimed that Swift and Esher Johnson had been secretly married by St. George Ashe...