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Lily Adams Beck. The Ladies: A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
The Ladies: A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
Table of Contents
Preface
Illustrations
I. THE DIURNAL OF MRS ELIZABETH PEPYS
Elizabeth Pepys—1640-1669
II. THE MYSTERY OF STELLA
Esther Johnson "Stella" 1681-1728
III. MY LADY MARY
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. 1689-1762
IV. THE GOLDEN VANITY
A Story of the First Irish Beauties. The Gunnings
Maria Gunning. Countess of Coventry 1733-1760 Elizabeth Gunning Duchess of Hamilton and of Argyll 1734-1790
V. THE WALPOLE BEAUTY
Maria Walpole. Countess of Waldegrave Duchess of Gloucester 17(?)-1807
VI. A BLUESTOCKING AT COURT
Fanny Bueney. Madame D'Arblay. 1752-1840
VII. THE DARCYS OF ROSINGS
Elizabeth Bennet. Mrs. Darcy
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Lily Adams Beck
Published by Good Press, 2022
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I missed him, and yet took a sad ease in his going. 'Twas the easier to talk with Dingley, to play at ombre with the Dean and Mrs Walls; for when he was in presence, my heart waited upon his speech, and he wounded with many a word and look he thought not on. And he writ often in the form of a Journal to Dingley and me, saying:—
"I will write something every day to MD, and when it is full, will send it; and that will be pretty, and I will always be in conversation with MD, and MD with Presto."
