Mary Berry (writer)

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Mary Berry (writer)

Mary Berry (1763–21 November 1852) was an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
author, born at Kirkbridge, North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is a shire county or shire county, located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and a ceremonial counties of England in that region and also partly in North East England....
.

and her sister Agnes (younger by 14 months) had a remarkable association with Horace Walpole. In his letters Walpole spoke of both in terms of the strongest affection and endearment, in one instance addressing them as his "twin wives." It was solely for their amusement that he wrote his Reminiscences of the Courts of George I and II (1789

1789 in literature

Events* Friedrich Schiller is appointed professor of history and philosophy at Jena....
).

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Mary Berry (1763–21 November 1852) was an English

English people

North Yorkshire

Walpole

She and her sister Agnes (younger by 14 months) had a remarkable association with Horace Walpole. In his letters Walpole spoke of both in terms of the strongest affection and endearment, in one instance addressing them as his "twin wives." It was solely for their amusement that he wrote his Reminiscences of the Courts of George I and II (1789

1789 in literature

Events* Friedrich Schiller is appointed professor of history and philosophy at Jena....
). He established the sisters at Teddington

Teddington

Teddington is in London, England on the north bank of the River Thames, between Hampton Wick and Twickenham. It stretches inland from the River Thames to Bushy Park, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames....
, in 1789, and two years later he induced them to make their home at Little Strawberry Hill

Strawberry Hill, London

Strawberry Hill is an affluent area of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames near Twickenham. It is a suburban development situated 10.4 miles west south-west of Charing Cross....
, the sometime residence of his friend, Kitty Clive

Kitty Clive

Catherine "Kitty" Clive was a United Kingdom actress of considerable repute on the stages of London.Most likely born in London, her father William Raftor was an Ireland and former officer in the French army under Louis XIV of France....
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It was said that Walpole was willing to marry either sister. His will provided for them by a bequest

Bequest

A bequest is the act of receiving property by will . Strictly, "bequest" is used of personal property, and "devise" of real property. It means the same thing as bequeath in legal terminology....
to each of £4000, and to both, the house and property at Little Strawberry Hill.

Writing

Mary Berry's literary productions include the comedy, Fashionable Friends; England and France, a Comparative View of the Social Conditions in both Countries (1844

1844 in literature

The year 1844 in literature involved some significant new books....
), and an edition of the Works of Horace Walpole (1798

1798 in literature

Events* The Acad?mie fran?aise publishes a new edition of its dictionary....
), which she collected and edited.

Mary Berry (writer)

Walpole

Writing

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