Maria Cowper

JCM bore her second child, a daughter, Maria Frances Cecilia , at Hertingfordbury Park.

JCM reaped a good deal of praise during her lifetime, but most of it must have been of questionable value to her as a poet. Pope 's To Erinna is typical in casting her as...

Nearly three months after suffering a bad fall, JCM wrote her will, in non-legal language, in the form of a letter to her daughter Maria , who was her executor.

Judith Cowper (later Madan) dated a juvenile poem of compliment, written in Mr Waller 's Poems: six heroic couplets, which her daughter Maria later transcribed into a notebook.

The Family Miscellany, collected and transcribed by JCM 's brother Ashley Cowper , dated 1747 and now British Library MS Add. 28,101, includes plenty of poems by Ashley himself and plenty more ascribed to...

Five hundred of JCM 's letters survive in manuscript. The correspondence between her and her husband both before and after marriage (about 350 letters, from 13 October 1723) is held by the Bodleian Library (MS...