Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw

01 January 1758 - 14 February 1849

MACB was the author of two early nineteenth-century historical novels, and, in her prefatory material, of some incisive comments on novel-writing.

BirthName: Mary Ann Jeffereyes
The Complete Peerage gives her Christian name as Marianne and her surname at birth as Jeffreys. This latter spelling varies widely; the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is followed here.
Married: Nugent; Cavendish Bradshaw
Pseudonym: Priscilla Parlante
Titled: Countess of Westmeath

Milestones

1758

Mary Ann Jeffereyes (later MACB ) was born, her parents' eldest daughter.

Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

By September 1808

MACB , as Priscilla Parlante, published, with her own frontispiece to each volume, Memoirs of Maria, Countess d'Alva, the earlier of her two historical novels.

Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.

3rd ser. 15 (1808): 104

14 February 1849

MACB died at the age of ninety-one.

Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.

119 (1849): 1: 438

Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.

Biography

Birth and Background

1758

Mary Ann Jeffereyes (later MACB ) was born, her parents' eldest daughter.

Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.