A Comparative View of the Social Life of England and France . . . By the Editor of Madame du Deffand’s Letters.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. First edition. In 1783, Mary Berry (1763-1852), author and friend and editor of Horace Walpole, went on the Grand Tour of Europe with her father and sister Agnes, and returned there, particularly to France, many times. Her richly woven Comparative View represents.....