Mary Pilkington

The conservative Lady's Monthly Museum carried an adaptation by the miscellaneous writer Mary Pilkington : Emma: or, A Tale of Woe. Abridged from Mrs. Crespigny 's Letters to her Son, and Founded on Fact...

SFG 's importance to the influential Mary Wollstonecraft can be gauged from the way that Wollstonecraft used and built on her writings, recommended them, measured others by their standard, and also did not hesitate to...

Mary Pilkington and others praised SW 's translations in manuscript. John Heyrick (husband of her friend Elizabeth) called her the elegant translator of Tasso in his First Flights, published in 1797.Maria Edgeworth said...

The Lady's Monthly Museum ran a piece on AB and the other Cooke sisters, excerpted from Mary Pilkington 's Memoirs of Celebrated Female Characters.

AB 's reputation was known to women from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century who were alert to the historical achievements of their own sex: Bathsua Makin , Elizabeth Elstob , Mary Deverell

In addition to Catharine Cappe 's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy , the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...

Various works have been wrongly attributed to Mrs Meeke during her lifetime and afterwards, perhaps because of her remarkable productivity. The old Dictionary of National Biography mistakenly ascribed to her Murray House. A Plain Unvarnished...