Evidence: | '[in a letter from Bury's correspondent [-]] I believe I told you I had been reading Horace Walpole's Letters over again, and also Madame du Deffand's Letters to him, and that I like them better. I hesitated for so long before reading them, because you disparaged them to me. I do not admire herself: she is a hard, unfeeling, misanthropical old sinner. But her mind is so laid open to me, that I pardon her faults and think she could not help them, as I do and think of my own. I have finished her letters to Horace, and am quite angry there is no account of her death. I am now reading her letters to Voltaire, which I cannot endure; they are full of nothing but fulsome flattery, which disgusts me. How much true affection dignifies every thing! but flattery when seen through, is odious. I like the portaits at the end of her book'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
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Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Unknown |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
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Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | correspondent of Charlotte Bury |
Author: | Horace Walpole |
Title: | Letters |
Genre: | Letters |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18430 | |
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Author: | Charlotte Bury | |
Editor: | A. Francis Steuart | |
Title: | Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1908 | |
Vol: | II | |
Page: | 98 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Charlotte Bury, A. Francis Steuart (ed.), Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The (London, 1908), II, p. 98, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18430, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
Date unclear as so many places in Bury's diary - 1815-1820. Letter received on Jan 4th but year uncertain. |
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