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Updated: May 11, 2025
I grew at last so weary of those birds of paradise, I fled to Twickenham, as much to avoid their persecutions as for my own health, which is still in a declining way." Lady Mary did not like Lady Hervey, the beautiful "Molly" Lepell, whom Gay eulogised: "Hervey, would you know the passion You have kindled in my breast? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed.
Murray "An Epistle from Arthur Grey" Lady Mary, Lord Hervey, and Molly Lepell Death of the Earl of Kingston Lady Gower Lady Mar Marriage of Lady Mary's daughter
The shades of her beautiful maids of honour, "sweet Molly Lepell," Mary Bellenden, and Sophy Howe, still haunt the Broad Walk. He added an audacious description of the manner in which the news was received at Court, and of the behaviour of the principal persons in the circle.
There was a vast deal of flirtation, of course, for this folly was as much the fashion of the time as rouge. But there was also a great deal of verse writing, correspondence of all degrees of wit, and now and then caricature with pencil and pen. Mary Lepell, in one of those jeux d' esprit, described the "Six Maids of Honour" as six volumes bound in calf.
Yet what was fairest and brightest and wittiest, if not wisest in England graced it, and the names of Bellenden and Lepell and Montagu, of Harvey and Chesterfield, of Gay and Pope and Walpole, flash and fade through the air that must have been so heavy even at Hampton Court in these reigns.
Murray "An Epistle from Arthur Grey" Lady Mary, Lord Hervey, and Molly Lepell Death of the Earl of Kingston Lady Gower Lady Mar Marriage of Lady Mary's daughter. Of Pope, it is curious to relate, though he was a near neighbour, she saw less and less.
Lady Walpole, Mrs Selwyn, Mary Lepell, and Mary Bellenden, formed a part of this coterie all women of presumed character, yet all associating familiarly with women of none.
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