Mrs Delany : a Life.

The first comprehensive biography of Mary Granville Delany--the artist and court insider whose wide-ranging legacy still reverberates today.

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Main Author: Orr, Clarissa Campbell
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019.
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505 0 |a Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I The Early Years; CHAPTER ONE Miss Mary Granville; A WILTSHIRE CHILDHOOD; WAR AND PATERNAL ABSENCE; UNDER THE SIGN OF MINERVA: THE APPRENTICESHIP OF A MAID OF HONOUR; DON'T BE A TULIP: ANGLICAN FEMINISM AND THE GRANVILLE FAMILY; CHELSEA AND WHITEHALL; THE GRANVILLE SUCCESSION QUESTION: ENTER THE MATRIARCH; EXPULSION FROM EDEN; CHAPTER TWO Cornish Bride; FIRST VISIT TO LONGLEAT HOUSE; MARY GRANVILLE'S LITERARY EDUCATION; ENTER 'GROMIO'; FROM LONGLEAT TO ROSCROW 
505 8 |a MARRIED LIFE: THE LAST CHAPTERCHAPTER THREE The New Widow and the American Prince; FINDING HER FEET; A WIDOW UNDER PRESSURE; IN THE PROVINCES: GLOUCESTER AND RURAL RETREATS; MRS PENDARVES AND THE NEW COURT; 'PEN-PEN'; BROTHER BEVILL'S LITERARY AMBITIONS; LOBBYING AT COURT; GOODBYE TO THE BASILISK; CHAPTER FOUR Irish Idyll; CONVALESCENCE; THE ANGLO-SAXON SCHOLAR; A PRIEST, A PROPOSAL AND A PAINTER; DUBLIN; FIRST IMPRESSIONS; 'AMONG THE WITS'; NEWS FROM HOME: MARRIAGES AND FINANCIAL SCANDALS; FÊTES CHAMPÊ. TRES; PATRICK'S FIRST MARRIAGE; HOMEWARD BOUND; CHAPTER FIVE Woman of Fashion 
505 8 |a 'DEAN SWIFT'S MRS. PENDARVES'WEDDINGS OF COUSINS AND PROPOSALS TO THE WIDOWED MRS PENDARVES; METROPOLITAN LIFE; EDUCATING EYE AND HAND; PATRICK DELANY AND SALLY'S CHRISTIAN FEMINISM; THE SIBLINGS IN LONDON; THE DUCHESS OF PORTLAND AND HER EARLY CIRCLE; A GOVERNESS FOR THE DUCHESS; CHAPTER SIX Contented Aspasia; FEMALE 'PATRIOTS'; ANNE GRANVILLE FINDS A HUSBAND; FRIENDSHIP AND RIVALRY AT BULSTRODE; RE-ENTER EDWARD YOUNG; CONTENTED ASPASIA; Part II A Dean's Wife; CHAPTER SEVEN Mrs Delany; THE PROPOSAL; 'TO HAVE THE FRIENDS I LOVE BEST, LOVE ONE ANOTHER, IS THE HEIGHT OF HAPPINESS TO ME'8 
505 8 |a DELVILLECHAPTER EIGHT The Duties of a Dean's Wife; THE DUTIES OF A DEAN'S WIFE; LORD CHESTERFIELD'S VICE-ROYALTY 1745-6; JOY AND SORROW IN ENGLAND 1746-7; WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WITS?; TRAVELS IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND 1748-50; FROM PARADISE TO MOUNT PLEASANT AND BACK; CHAPTER NINE Life, Love and Literature in the Wellesbourne Circle; ANNE AND JOHN DEWES: LIFE AT WELLESBOURNE; DEBATES ON LOVE AND MARRIAGE; MARY ASTELL AND OTHER 'WOMEN WORTHIES'; SINGLE WOMEN AND THE IDEAL MAN; CHAPTER TEN The Lawsuit Years; THE LAWSUIT; 'THE CHILDREN OF THE FRIENDS OF OUR YOUTH'; THE PORTLAND CHILDREN 
505 8 |a THE METROPOLIS AT MID-CENTURY'PUBLIC CALAMITIES AND PRIVATE DISTRESS'51; AUTUMN IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE AND BATH; CHAPTER ELEVEN From Gladness to Sadness; 'SISTER OF MY HEART'24; THE NEW REIGN AND THE NEW BRIDES; CHAPTER TWELVE Bernard and the Duchess Befriend Rousseau and Patrick Passes Away; CALWICH ABBEY AND ITS CELEBRITY NEIGHBOUR; 'L'HERBORISTE OF LA DUCHESSE DE PORTLAND' AND THE YOUNG SHEPHERDESS; GODMOTHERING; THE SAD FAREWELL; Part III New Horizons; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Seven Widows and the Friendship Circle; THE FIRST MONTHS OF MOURNING; THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE ADAPTS 
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