The salon and English letters

by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

Necker, Nouveaux Mélanges 1. 30.

[195] ‘Institutress’ is Mrs. Miller’s unpretending designation of herself. The quotation is from the preface to a volume entitled, Poetical Amusements at a Villa near Bath, Bath 1775.

[196] Walpole’s Letters 9. 134; 15 January 1775.

[197] See the preface to the volume for 1777.

[198] 1776; 1777; 1781.

[199] In 1781; a fifth volume had been announced for 1782.

[200] London 1777.

[201] Bath 1776.

[202] Bath 1776.

[203] She calls herself a bluestocking in 1780. Diary 1. 403.