Mary Ann Browne

MAB wrote in the early nineteenth century and died in her early thirties. During her short career she published eight volumes of poetry, and was estimated to have printed in periodicals and annuals probably as much material, both poems and prose, as would have filled two or three more. She also wrote a juvenile diary, tragedies, and translations from German, which do not survive. Her themes include love, marriage, and self-sacrifice, the vocation of poetry, and conditions of women's lives both in the here and now and at various historical periods.