Mary Delany [née Granville]

(1700-1788)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700-1788 NRA: Delany, Mary (1700-1788) nee Granville, afterwards Pendarves, Artist and Writer DNB: Delany [née Granville; other married name Pendarves], Mary (1700-1788), court favourite and artist LBT ID: MaDelan1788 VIAF ID: 2564923 LOC ID: n85199434	B/BAP: 1700-05-14 DIED: 1788-04-15
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Courtier, letter-writer, and friend of Jonathan Swift; she introduced Fanny Burney to the royal family.
REFERENCES TO Mary Delany [née Granville]: Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter VIII Found 1: ¶ 14 Chapter XV Found 1: ¶ 7 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 1 Found 1: ¶ 10 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXIII. Found 2: ¶ 12 ¶ 13