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Ladies of Letters

Roger Hudson on the Stanley Letters

Virginia Woolf’s collections of essays, The Common Reader, The Death of the Moth and so on, reward those looking for interesting interstices within English literature. In the latter, in an essay entitled ‘Reflections at Sheffield Place’, I first met John Holroyd, 1st Lord Sheffield, and his daughter Maria Josepha, and found out about their friendship with Edward Gibbon. I then discovered that two volumes of letters by Maria Josepha and her family had appeared in the 1890s and that two more came out in the 1930s, edited by Nancy Mitford. Intrigued, I tracked them down and entered another world.

Ladies of Letters | An Appendix

Roger Hudson on the Stanley Letters

There wasn’t space to include all the background information provided by Roger Hudson for his piece on the Stanley letters which appeared in Slightly Foxed Issue 75. For those who would like to read more about the letters and the family, Roger has supplied an appendix.

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