Mary Monck

As the nephew of the current Viscount Molesworth, he had social standing, with descent from some distinguished Irish politicians of the eighteenth century, and collateral descent from a woman writer (Mary Monck ). During...

It is hard to believe that MM —a seventeenth-century woman who left a single, thoughtful, accomplished poem—was not a writer in a larger sense. One or two other poems might plausibly be hers, and she...

After seven pages on grammar, she offers pattern letters: those in verse are in effect an anthology of epistolary poems by women, a patriotically generous selection of Irish writers (Mary Monck , Mary Barber

She seems to have circulated her writings among a group of young women including probably Mary Monck . She copied them in two surviving albums, from one of which pages were then cut out, apparently...

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...

Despite the title, the travel in this sequel or companion to The Juvenile Travellers confines itself to the British Isles, where one of the most pressing topics of local interest is association with writers...