breakfast-giver

Updated: April 30, 2025

So late as 1791, when she had reached her seventy-first year, she gave a breakfast of which Fanny Burney wrote: "The crowd of company was such that we could only slowly make our way in any part. There could not be fewer than four or five hundred people. It was like a full Ranelagh by daylight." That other breakfast-giver, Samuel Rogers, who only knew Mrs.

Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley - Inns and Taverns of Old London