Verses by Anna Maria Porter, Thames-Ditton, Surrey [manuscript], [1799-1810].

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Verses by Anna Maria Porter, Thames-Ditton, Surrey [manuscript], [1799-1810].

Verses, including two on the recently deceased Mary Wollstonecraft, are dated from 1799 to 1810; most of them are from 1799 to 1804.

1 v. (100 leaves) ; 19 x 16.5 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7109451

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797

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Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay (by whom she had a daughter, Fanny Imlay), Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement. Wollstonecraft died at the age of 38, eleven days after giving birth to her second daughter, leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts. This daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, became an accomp...

Porter, Anna Maria, 1778-1832

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British author. From the description of Letter : to "Miss Cockle," Newcastle upon Tyne, 1821 Jan. 12. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 29458717 Epithet: novelist, sister of Sir R K Porter British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000114 Anna Maria Porter, like her sister Jane, was a popular English novelist and poet. Precocious and nurtured in her early years, Anna Maria published a ...