Mrs. Delany~Her Page

Mary Granville Pendarves Delany (1700-1788)

" I wish you had known Mrs. Delany! She was a perfect pattern of a perfect fine lady; a real fine lady.  Her manners were faultless; her deportment was of a marked elegance; her speech was all sweetness; and her air and address were all dignity.  I always looked up to Mrs. Delany as the model of an accomplished gentlewoman of former times."  (Edmund Burke)

Mrs. Delany (2003-

"Have I told you of a pretty tortoiseshell puss I have?  The sauciest and prettiest and most indulged little animal that ever was everybody's favourite?" (Mary Delany writing to her sister Anne Dewes, March 1745)