When twenty-four years of age she was married, in December, 1742, to Admiral Boscawen, seven years her senior, and they seem to have been a well-suited, happy couple. Her character is perhaps best seen in the interesting gossiping letters which she and Mrs. Delany (a Grenville of Stow) interchanged. She was also a correspondent of Hannah More and Mrs. Chapone. Hannah More, in her 'Sensibility,' writes thus of her: 'Accept, Boscawen! these unpolish'd lays, Nor blame too much the verse you cannot praise. For you far other bards have wak'd the string; Far other bards for you were wont to sing. * * * * * You heard the lyres of Lyttelton and Young; And this a Grace, and that a Seraph strung.' And in another place she adds: 'On you, Boscawen, when you fondly melt In raptures none but mothers ever felt, And view, enamour'd, in your beauteous race, All Leveson's sweetness, and all Beaufort's grace! Yet think _what dangers_ each lov'd child may share, The youth _if valiant_, and the maid _if fair_?' The reason for dedicating this poem of '_Sensibility_' to Mrs. Boscawen is glanced at in the following couplet: ''Tis _this_, whose charms the soul resistless seize, And gives Boscawen half her pow'r to please.' On the death of her husband, Dr. Young thus addressed her, in a postscript to his poem 'Resignation', 'Why mourn the dead? You wrong the grave, From storms that safe resort; We still are tossing out at sea-- Our _Admiral's_ in port.' As another illustration of her intimacy with literary people, and of her fondness for their pursuits, it may be mentioned that Mrs. Boscawen was one of the society of 'eminent friends, both ladies and gentlemen,' who used to meet at Mrs. Montagu's, where she made herself welcome, says Dr. Doran, by 'the strength of her understanding, the poignancy of her humour, and the brilliancy of her wit.' A Mr. Stillingfleet, one of the coterie, was rather slovenly in his costume, and, amongst other delinquencies, wore _grey_ stockings, which caused Admiral Boscawen humorously to affix to the whole party a name which has now become a household word--'The Blue Stockings.'