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Gay, Mary (1765 - 1821)

Short name Gay, Mary
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
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Sex Female
Place of birth Lyon
Place of death Paris
Lived in France , Paris
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Children Allart, Hortense , Allart, Sophie
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Gay, Mary was ...
family: non-household Gay, Delphine
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Place(s) of Residence France , Paris
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Eleonora de Rosalba, ou le confessionnal des pénitents noirs (1797)
is also a reception: is translation of The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents
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Les Secrets de famille (1802) 1 0
Albertine de Saint-Albe (1818) 0 0

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Circulations of Gay, Mary, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
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Receptions of Gay, Mary, the person

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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.