Gay, Mary (1765 - 1821)
| Short name | Gay, Mary |
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| VIAF | http://viaf.org/viaf/71753949/ |
| First name | Marie-Françoise |
| Birth name | Gay |
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| Alternative name | Mary Gay , Marie-Françoise Allard |
| Date of birth | 1765 |
| Date of death | 1821 |
| Flourishing | - |
| Sex | Female |
| Place of birth | Lyon |
| Place of death | Paris |
| Lived in | France , Paris |
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| Father | |
| Children | Allart, Hortense , Allart, Sophie |
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| Aristocratic title | - |
| Professional or ecclesiastical title | - |
Gay, Mary was ...
| family: non-household | Gay, Delphine |
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| Place(s) of Residence | France , Paris |
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Receptions of Gay, Mary, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
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MENTIONED IN:
- Briquet 1804
- Hébrail, Jacques/ LaPorte, Joseph de : La France littéraire, Genève, Slatkine, 1968.
- Grente, Cardinal Georges : Dictionnaire des Lettres Françaises. Le XVIIIe siècle, vol.1 A-K, Paris, Fayard, 1960.
- MMF transl.woman svdmay11
Translated works by Samuel Jackson Pratt and Anne Radcliffe.
Information below mainly from Hollstein Hansen (1998)
Married (1798), widowed (1817); 2 daughters : Hortense, Sophie.
Translator from English.