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1 online resource (449 pages) |
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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 |
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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 |
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'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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
The first comprehensive biography of Mary Granville Delany--the artist and court insider whose wide-ranging legacy still reverberates today |
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CONNOISSEURS AND CORNISHMEN |
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Print version record |
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Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700-1788.
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Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700-1788 fast |
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Upper class women -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Women artists -- England -- Biography
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Flowers in art.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers.
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Flowers in art
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Upper class women
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Women artists
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England
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Great Britain
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300161472 |
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0300161476 |
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