...far more creditable to the writer's honesty. She was received in a " kind of transport," and adds, " I acknowledge, though I remember her some years since,...vanity in any person not confined within four walls." After describing her Grace's manner, appearance, and conversation, she says — " At last I grew weary,...

...I am concerned you should be absent when you might confirm the suffrages of your fellow collegiota, and see the mistress both Universities court ; a person...been a stranger to her fame, I was surprised to find во much extravagancy and vanity in any person not confined within four walls. Her habit particular,...

...Queen of Sheba. Mrs. Evelyn drew a very lively picture of the Duchess in a letter to Dr. Bohun : " I acknowledge, though I remember her some years since,...any person not confined within four walls. . . Her mien surpasses the imagination of poets or the descriptions of romance heroine's greatness; her gracious...

...Mrs. Evelyn's impressions of the interview preserved for us in a letter to Mr. Bohun. She writes : "I acknowledge, though I remember her some years since...any person not confined within four walls. . . . Her mien surpasses the imagination of poets or the descriptions of romance heroine's greatness ; her gracious...

...unvarnished account of this visit in a letter to Dr. Bohun in 1667. "I was surprised '' — she says — " to find so much extravagancy and vanity in any person not confined within four walls. Her [the Duchess's] habit particular, fantastical, not unbecoming a good shape, which she may truly boast...

...many soberer people in Bedlam." 3 Mrs. Evelyn called on the Duchess in 1667 and wrote to Mr. Bohun: I was surprised to find so much extravagancy and vanity...particular, fantastical, not unbecoming a good shape, which truly she may boast of. Her face discovers the facility of her sex, in being yet persuaded it deserves...

...am concerned you should be absent when you might confirm the suffrages of your fellow collegiots,5 and see the mistress both Universities court; a person...and vanity in any person not confined within four walls.7 Her habit particular," fantastical, not unbecoming a good shape, which she may truly boast...

...instance, Mary Evelyn drew deliberate and scathing parallels between Cavendish's life and her works: I was surprised to find so much extravagancy and vanity...any person not confined within four walls. Her habit peculiar, fantastical.... Her mien surpasses the imagination of poets, or the descriptions of a romance...

...self-fashioning should be seen as forming a continuum with her creation of fantasy selves in her writing: I was surprised to find so much extravagancy and vanity...within four walls. Her habit particular, fantastical . . . Her mien surpasses the imagination of poets, or the descriptions of a romance heroine's greatness:...

...that her contemporaries found them overly affected. Mary Evelyn, for example, writes of her surprise "to find so much extravagancy and vanity" in any person not confined to an asylum.38 As 16 The inscription Elizabeth Gary had engraved on her daughter's wedding ring during...