Mary Bryan

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Standard Name: Bryan, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Langdon
Married Name: Mary Bryan
Married Name: Mary Bedingfield
Self-constructed Name: Mrs Bryan Bedingfield
Used Form: Mrs Bryan
MB was a remarkable and unusual Romantic poet, though her output is so slim. The same emotionalism of style informs her surviving letters, though it is a less successful element in prose. Her last work was a new departure: a novel.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Ham
It was dedicated to the poet Margaret Holford Hodson (who was at this time seriously ill), and was apparently published by August.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 203
Joanna Baillie's editor Judith Bailey Slagle dates Baillie's letter about this...

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Texts

Bryan, Mary. Longhollow; A Country Tale. Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1829, 3 vols.
Bryan, Mary. Sonnets and Metrical Tales. City Printing Office, 1815.
Bryan, Mary, and Jonathan Wordsworth. Sonnets and Metrical Tales 1815. Woodstock Books, 1996.