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mary
n. used in Queensland of the aborigines,as equivalent to girl or woman. «A black Mary.» Compare « B...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Brunton, Mary (Balfour)
(1778-1818) Novelist, dau. of Col. Balfour of Elwick, and m. to the Rev. Dr. Brunton, Prof. of Orie...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Tighe, Mary (Blackford)
(1772-1810) Poet, dau. of a clergyman, made an unhappy marriage, though she had beauty and amiable ...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Cholmondeley, Mary
Novelist. Diana Tempest, Red Pottage, Moth and Rust (1902), Prisoners (1906), etc. ...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Evans, Mary Ann or Marian ("George Eliot")
(1819-1880) Novelist, was b. near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, dau. of Robert E., land agent, a man of s...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Godwin, Mrs. Mary (Wollstonecraft)
(1759-1797) Miscellaneous writer, was of Irish extraction. Her f. was a spend-thrift of bad habits,...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
(1862-1900) Traveller, dau. of George Henry K. (himself a traveller, and author of South Sea Bubble...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Mitford, Mary Russell
(1787-1855) Poetess and novelist, b. at Alresford, Hants, dau. of a physician, without practice, se...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (Pierrepont)
(1690-1762) Letter-writer, was the eldest dau. of the 1st Duke of Kingston. In her youth she combin...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Somerville, Mrs. Mary (Fairfax)
(1780-1872) Mathematician and writer on science, dau. of Admiral Sir William G. Fairfax, b. at Jedb...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Yonge, Charlotte Mary
(1823-1901) Novelist, only dau. of a landed gentleman of Hampshire, was b. near Winchester, and in ...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Braddon, Mary Elizabeth
(b. 1837) Novelist. Lady Audley's Secret, Aurora Floyd (1862), Henry Dunbar (1864), Only a Clod (18...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Murfree, Mary Noailles ("Charles Egbert Craddock")
American novelist. In the Tennessee Mountains (1884), Down the Ravine (1885), The Prophet of the Gre...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Wilkins, Mary Eleanor (Mrs. C.M. Freeman)
(b. 1862) American story-writer. A New England Nun, Young Lucretia, A Humble Romance, A Faraway Mel...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Shelley, Mrs. Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin)
(1797-1851) Novelist, b. in London, the only child of William Godwin (q.v.) and Mary Wollstonecraft...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Sherwood, Mrs. Mary Martha (Butt)
(1775-1851) Writer of children's books, m. in 1803 Captain H. Sherwood, and went to India, where sh...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Harrison, Mary St. Leger ("Lucas Malet")
Novelist. Mrs. Lorimer (1882), Colonel Enderby's Wife (1885), A Counsel of Perfection (1888), The Wa...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Molesworth, Mrs. Mary Louisa (Stewart)
(b. 1839) Novelist and writer for children. Carrots, Cuckoo Clock, Herr Baby, The Boys, etc.; novel...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Robinson, Agnes Mary Frances (Mme. Duclaux)
(b. 1857) Poetess. A Handful of Honeysuckles (1878), The Crowned Hippolytus (1881), Arden (novel) (...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Craigie, Mrs. Pearl Mary Teresa (Richards)
(1867-1906) Dau. of John Morgan, R. b. in Boston, Massachusetts. Most of her education was received...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Manley, Mrs. Mary de la Riviere
(1663 or 1672-1724) Novelist, dramatist, and political writer, dau. of Sir Roger Manley, was decoye...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin