Mary Shackleton
married William Leadbeater
, who had become a farmer when his joining the Quakers
closed to him the career he had intended to pursue.
Leadbeater, Mary, and Mary Cunningham. The Annals of Ballitore, 1766-1824. Editor McKenna, John, Stephen Scroop, 1986.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Features
Mary Leadbeater
She writes of her family and friends, her literary mentor Burke
, of domestic emotions (Never may our hearts refuse / To share another's pain)
Feminist Companion Archive.
and of public issues, for instance in The...
Textual Production
Melesina Trench
The last extant letter that MT
wrote was to the widower
of Mary Leadbeater
(the writer having died six months before).
Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Parker and Bourn, 1862.