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(1787-1855).—
Poetess and novelist, born at
Alresford, Hants, daughter of a physician, without practice, selfish
and extravagant, who ran through three fortunes, his own, his
wife’s, and his daughter’s, and then lived on the industry
of the last. After a vol. of poems which attracted little notice, she
produced her powerful tragedy, Julian. In 1812, what ultimately
became the first vol. of Our Village appeared in the
Lady’s Magazine. To this four additional vols. were added,
the last in 1832. In this work Miss M. may be said to have created a
new branch of literature. Her novel, Belford Regis (1835), is
somewhat on the same lines. She added two dramas, Rienzi
(1828), and Foscari, Atherton and other Tales (1852), and
Recollections of a Literary Life, and died at her cottage at
Swallowfield, much beloved for her benevolent and simple character, as
well as valued for her intellectual powers.
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