Mary Bryan

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MB was a remarkable and unusual Romantic poet, though her output is so slim. The same emotionalism of style informs her surviving letters, though it is a less successful element in prose. Her last work was a new departure: a novel.

Milestones

15 June 1780

Mary Langdon (later MB ) was born (according to anthologist Andrew Ashfield ) the eldest of three sisters and a brother, at North Petherton in the Sedgemoor area of Somerset, where she grew up.
Ashfield, Andrew, editor. Romantic Women Poets. Manchester University Press.
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Early 1829

MB published through Whittaker a three-volume novel entitled Longhollow; A Country Tale; on the title-page she used both her married names: Mrs Bryan Bedingfield.
Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7.

29 September 1838

Mary Bedingfield (formerly Bryan) died at Stowmarket in Suffolk. The Ipswich Journal reported her death a week later.

Biography

Birth and Family

15 June 1780

Mary Langdon (later MB ) was born (according to anthologist Andrew Ashfield ) the eldest of three sisters and a brother, at North Petherton in the Sedgemoor area of Somerset, where she grew up.
Ashfield, Andrew, editor. Romantic Women Poets. Manchester University Press.
2: 288

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