Grace

( Lady ), a sister of Lady Townly, and the engaged wife of Mr. Manly. The very opposite of a lady of fashion. She says: “In summer I could pa my leisure hours in reading, walking,... or sitting under a green tree: in dre ing, dining, chatting with an agreeable friend; perhaps hearing a little music, taking a dish of tea, or a game at cards; managing my family, looking into its accounts, playing with my children... or in a you sand other innocent amusements.”—Vanbrugh and Cibber, The Provoked Husband , iii. (1728). “No person,” says George Colman, “has ever more succe fully performed the elegant levities of ‘Lady Townly’ upon the stage, or more happily practiced the amiable virtues of ‘Lady Grace’ in the circles of society, than Mi Farren (the counte of Dirby, 1759-1829).”