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which may be readily forgiven. Thus, for instance, Mrs. Thrale's second marriage with the Italian vocalist Signor Piozzi aroused a good deal of unfavourable comment, brought about an indirect rupture with Fanny Burney and partly caused her withdrawal from the Bluestocking circles. The same exaggerated notions, arising partly from hatred of the Encyclopedian spirit of revolutionism embodied in the much-reviled Rousseau, occur in Mrs. Delany's
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and in her extremely voluminous correspondence. Mrs. Chapone's _Letters_ insist on a proper regard to reputation as one of the most desirable qualities in a friend. She emphatically distinguished between love of reputation, which is nothing but discretion, and undue regard of opinion, which is only vanity. Here her views coincided with Mary Wollstonecraft's, who had pointed out the error of wanting to make opinion
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to women in Rousseau's _Emile_, but who did not make Mrs. Chapone's distinction. In the behaviour of young women towards gentlemen, the latter says, great delicacy is required,
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She therefore agreed that the
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for cards. The first determined attack upon the greatest social curse of the age was made by Mrs. Chapone,--then Miss Mulso--in collaboration with Johnson in No. 10 of the _Rambler_ in the year 1750. She wrote to Johnson in his capacity of censor of manners, informing him that she,
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Lady Racket , intended to have
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. She, of course, intended that Johnson should seize the opportunity to attack gambling and thus range himself openly on the side of the intellectual ladies who were in open revolt against the practice. Johnson replied that even at the most brilliant of card-tables he had always thought his visit lost,
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Their complete absorption in the vicissitudes of the game, their exulting triumph when successful, and their flush of rage at defeat or at
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so disgusted him that he soon retired.
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They were too trifling for me when I was grave, and too dull when I was cheerful . Mrs. Carter, who did not object to taking an occasional hand at whist or quadrille, was vehement in her condemnation of faro, which she hoped Horace Walpole on getting into the House would succeed in putting down. Hannah More's
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further endorses the statement that the substitution of conversation for cards was one of the objects of Bluestockingism. The introduction states its origin and character. The ladies at Mrs. Vesey's, Mrs. Montagu's and Mrs. Boscawen's, to mention the three hostesses to whom according to their chronicler Hannah More
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, although in the opinion of others Mrs. Thrale and Mrs. Ord were candidates for Mrs. Boscawen's place--assembled