Mary Lady Champion de Crespigny (1748~ - 1812)

Short name Mary Lady Champion de Crespigny
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Date of birth 1748~
Date of death 1812
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Lived in England
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Mary Lady Champion de Crespigny was ...
related to Jane Porter
related to Porter, Anna Maria
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Public Characters of 1805 UNKNOWN [author, various, name and sex unknown] 1805 is biography of
Cf. - Garside, Peter. "Subscribing Fiction in Britain, 1780-1829", in: Huber, Werner (ed.) The Corvey Library and Anglo-German Cultural Exchanges, 1770-1837. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2004. pp. 55-100.
According to Orlando (see link): - born in either 1748 or 1749 died 20-07-1812 - functioned as a patron of writers, especially women writers - Habitual diarist and writer of occasional poetry (often for manuscript circulation) According to Peter Garside, Crespigny was "an ubiquitous presence in [subscription] lists of [c.1890s], helped bring in some 750 subscriptions, mainly from London residential addresses, the third largest tally found." p.65