Mary Collyer

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Standard Name: Collyer, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Mitchell
Married Name: Mary Collyer
Pseudonym: The Author of the First Volume
Pseudonym: The Author of Felicia to Charlotte
Pseudonym: The Editor of the Death of Abel
Used Form: A Lady
Used Form: the translator of The Virtuous Orphan
MC wrote, it seems, at least two novels (her canon is still under debate), and translated and adapted the work of others as a matter of business. The sentimental tone of her original work, Felicia to Charlotte, 1744, perfectly caught the current taste, and made her a great success. She also wrote what is probably the earliest book of stories for children. Since all her publications were anonymous, they used often to be attributed to her husband.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Ada Leverson
Of the stories, Claude's Aunt presents a tale (reminiscent of Restoration comedy) of women jockeying over the manipulation of a young man, either into an affair with an older woman or marriage with a young...
Textual Production Mary Robinson
She told Jane Porter on 27 August 1800 that this translation (which she began and finished in ten days although she was seriously ill) was a torment to her.
Robinson, Mary. The Works of Mary Robinson. Editor Brewer, William D., Pickering and Chatto, 2009–2010, 8 vols.
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She also intended (like Mary Collyer
Textual Production Elizabeth Meeke
EM 's completion of Mary Collyer 's translation of Klopstock (The Messiah) appeared, bearing her name.
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Timeline

1749: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock published Der...

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1749

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock published Der Messias, a religious poem in three cantos.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 429

January 1761: Joseph Collyer, husband of the writer Mary...

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January 1761

Joseph Collyer , husband of the writer Mary Collyer , published The Parents & Guardians Directory, and the Youth's Guide, in the Choice of a Profession or Trade.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
11: 166
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
(January 1761)

1780: James Harrison (hitherto chiefly known as...

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1780

James Harrison (hitherto chiefly known as a music publisher) began to issue the handsomely-produced Novelists' Magazine, a weekly serial reprinting of canonical novels.
Shevlin, Elinor. “’It is the intention of the Editor’: Griffith’s, Harrison’s, and Cooke’s collections and the making of the English novel”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, New Orleans, LA, 21 Apr. 2001.
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Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 1023

January 1781-December 1782: The Lady's Poetical Magazine, or Beauties...

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January 1781-December 1782

The Lady's Poetical Magazine, or Beauties of British Poetry appeared, published by James Harrison in four half-yearly numbers; it is arguable whether or not it kept the first number's promise of generous selections of work...

Texts

Collyer, Mary. A Christmass-Box. Mary Cooper and Mary Boreman, 1746.
Collyer, Mary. Felicia to Charlotte. Printed for Jacob Robinson and Joseph Collyer, 1744.
Marivaux, Pierre de. “Introduction”. The Virtuous Orphan; or, The Life of Marianne, Countess of *****, edited by William Harlin McBurney and Michael F. Shugrue, translated by. Mary Collyer, Southern Illinois University Press, 1965, p. xi - xliv.
Memoirs of the Countess de Bressol. Translator Collyer, Mary, J. Robinson, 1743, 2 vols.
Gessner, Salomon. The Death of Abel. Translator Collyer, Mary, Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, D. Wilson, T. Durham, and M. Collyer, 1761.
Collyer, Mary. The History of Betty Barnes. D. Wilson and T. Durham, 1753, 2 vols.
Collyer, Mary. The History of Miss Indiana Danby. J. Dodsley, 1767, 4 vols.
Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb. The Messiah. Translators Collyer, Mary and Joseph, the elder Collyer, R. and J. Dodsley, 1763.
Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb. The Messiah. Translators Collyer, Mary and Elizabeth Meeke, F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821.
Marivaux, Pierre de. The Virtuous Orphan; or, The Life of Marianne, Countess of *****. Translator Collyer, Mary, Jacob Robinson, 1743, 4 vols.
Marivaux, Pierre de. The Virtuous Orphan; or, The Life of Marianne, Countess of *****. Editors McBurney, William Harlin and Michael F. Shugrue, Translator Collyer, Mary, Southern Illinois University Press, 1965.