| Short name |
Mary Lady Champion de Crespigny |
| VIAF |
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| First name |
Mary |
| Birth name |
|
| Married name |
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| Alternative name |
Mary Clarke
|
| Date of birth |
1748~ |
| Date of death |
1812 |
| Flourishing |
- |
| Sex |
Female |
| Place of birth |
- |
| Place of death |
- |
| Lived in |
England
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| Place of residence notes |
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| Related to |
Jane Porter
,
Anna Maria Porter
|
| Bibliography |
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. |
| Provisional Notes |
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 |