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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS
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Berry, Mary ___ 1763-1852 ___ British ___ n/a

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
There is not much information about Mary Berry, or her sister Agnes, on the internet. She is remembered largely because of a close association with Horace Walpole who wrote, in a letter, that the Berry sisters were 'the best-informed and most perfect creatures I ever saw at their age' and that they were 'entirely natural and unaffected, frank, and, being qualified to talk on any subject, nothing is so easy and agreeable as their conversation'. By then, Walpole was in his 70s, and the Berrys were still only in their early 20s. In 1791, the sisters and their father went to live near Walpole, at his Little Strawberry Hill property. Thereafter, Mary in particular became a close companion of Walpole's. After his death, the Berrys inherited Little Strawberry Hill, and Mr Berry was assigned to prepare some of Walpole's writings for publication. However, it was Mary who edited the five volumes of Walpole's work which were published in 1798. Lady Theresa Lewis edited Mary Berry's own diaries which were published in three volumes in 1865.
No biography link

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1783-1848 ___ social travel society people

WEB TEXT LINKS

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
British Library, Manuscripts Collection

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry

May 2005
THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS:
1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.