CHAPTER XIV. Lady Mary As a Reader

LADY MARY AS A READER

Her fondness for reading--Her difficulty to get enough books while abroad--Lady Bute keeps her supplied--Lady Mary's catholic taste in literature--Samuel Richardson--The vogue of Clarissa Harlowe--Lady Mary tells a story of the Richardson type--Henry Fielding--Joseph Andrews--Tom Jones--Her high opinion of Fielding and Steele--Tobias Smollett--Peregrins Pickle--Lady Vare's Memoirs of a Lady of Quality--Sarah Fielding--Minor writers--Lord Orrery's Remarks on Swift--Bolingbroke's works--Addison and Pope--Dr. Johnson