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1. Notebook, 1840-1842
- Creator:
- Berry, Mary, 1763-1852
- Call Number:
- LWL Mss Vol. 68
- Image Count:
- 32
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Holograph of a collection of notes and personal memoranda. The volume begins with a description of a dream, dated August 1840, in which she imagines she is with child, from which she awakes in tears, recalling that she has never possessed either husband or child, and has long survived that "Friend" who had been such a comfort to her. Following this recollection and dated 9 May 1842, she reminisces about her past vigor of body and mind, including extraordinary sense of sight and hearing, and notes how these senses are diminishing with age; she also mentions her quickness of mind which was nurtured by those to whom she was devoted. The volume concludes with a brief essay titled The apocalypse, which analyzes the Book of Revelation
- Description:
- Mary Berry (1763-1852), author, was born at Stanwick, Yorkshire. She and her sister Agnes began a close friendship with Horace Walpole in 1788, who spoke of them as his "twin wives." He established the sisters at Teddington, in 1789, and two years later offered them the use of his own secondary residence, Little Strawberry Hill. Berry became engaged to General Charles O'Hara (c.1740-1802) about October 1795, though the couple separated in 1796. In 1824 the sisters took up residence in Curzon Street, where they established a salon frequented by many prominent figures in society; Berry's acquaintances included William Thackeray, Maria Edgeworth, and Madame de Staël. Her literary productions include the comedy Fashionable Friends; A comparative view of the social life of England and France from the Restoration of Charles the Second to the French Revolution (1828) and its sequel Social Life in England and France from the French Revolution in 1789 to that of July 1830 (1831); and an edition of the Works of Horace Walpole (1798)., In English., Binding: cardboard covers. Written on cover: MB. 1839., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Berry, Mary, 1763-1852.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dreams, Women authors, English, and Old age
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Notebook, 1840-1842
2. Sketchbook [art original].
- Creator:
- Berry, Mary, 1763-1852
- Published / Created:
- [between 1784 and 1796]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B45 790
- Image Count:
- 57
- Abstract:
- A collection of pencil sketches mostly on ca. 51 pages. The first two are drawings of Pisa, but most are sketches done in the summer of 1796 of sites in England including: Twickenham, Goodwood House, Pagham, Bognor, as well as other undated and unidentified sites. One sketch from 1784 tipped in and one of a kangaroo
- Description:
- Title assigned by cataloger., Pages [52]-[66] blank., Worn marbled-paper boards, spine lacking; annotated on cover: MB [monogram] 1790 Pisa., and For further information consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England., Goodwood House (England), Twickenham (London, England), Pisa (Italy), and Sussex (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Churches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sketchbook [art original].
3. The fashionable friends; a comedy, in five acts: as performed by Their Majesties servants at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane
- Creator:
- Berry, Mary, 1763-1852
- Published / Created:
- 1802.
- Call Number:
- 768 B45 802
- Image Count:
- 47
- Description:
- Written by Mary Berry and often wrongly ascribed to Viscount Melbourne, who wrote the Epilogue for it.--cf. Dict. nat. biog.; Brit. mus. Catalogue; Extracts of the journals and correspondence of Miss Berry, v. 1, p. 486, v. 2, p. 194-199; W.T.M. Torrens' Memoirs of Viscount Melbourne, v. 1, p. 42., Last three pages are bookseller's accouncement., and LWL 768 B45 802: Uncut copy in case.
- Publisher:
- J. Ridgway
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fashionable friends; a comedy, in five acts: as performed by Their Majesties servants at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane
