Mary Lady Chudleigh

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Standard Name: Chudleigh, Mary,,, Lady
Birth Name: Mary Lee
Married Name: Mary Chudleigh
Titled: Mary, Lady Chudleigh
Pseudonym: Marissa
Pseudonym: M--y C.
Used Form: A Lady
Mary, Lady Chudleigh , was a versatile writer who began publishing during her middle age. Her poems and essays are earnest on religious topics but vividly dramatic in feminist debate. She wrote letters which were not for publication. Her surviving works are merely the tip of the iceberg. She reached print late in life: though she published in the eighteenth century, she must have written a great deal before that century began.
Photograph of watercolour painting of Ashton House, Devon, the ancestral home of Mary Chudleigh's husband and where she spent most of her life.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Martha Fowke
The first is An Epitaph on the late Excellent and Ingenious Lady, the Lady Chudley , of Aston in Devonshire (actually more of an elegy); the second is On a Silk-Paper at a Fair Lady's...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Judith Sargent Murray
She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho , the patriotic heroism...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Martha Fowke
Several of her poems in this collection wrestle with the conflict between gender and ambition. MF complains vigorously of feeling oppressed because of her sex—I was, oh, hated Thought! a Woman made; / For...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Williams
JW surveys the field diligently from the sixteenth century onwards. She insists in principle, however, that no artistic talent in a woman justifies the neglect of even the smallest act of domestic duty.
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
This belief...

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