Mary Catherine Hume

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MCH , who following her marriage published as Mary Hume-Rothery, wrote in a number of genres from the mid-nineteenth century onwards Her works include a biography, several collections of poems (many of which reflect her Swedenborg ian views), a novel, a collection of children's stories, three religious texts, and a number of essays and pamphlets on the medical profession, vaccination, and the Contagious Diseases Acts.

Milestones

14 December 1824

MCH was born in Bryanston Square, London, the youngest child but one in a family of seven.
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.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 100

1850

MCH published her first book, anonymously, at Boston: A Brief Sketch of the Life, Character, and Religious Opinions of the Late Charles Augustus Tulk , Addressed to the Members of the New Church.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Early 1857

MCH 's The Wedding Guests; or, The Happiness of Life, A Novel investigated the workings of the marriage market.
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.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

14 February 1885

Two years after her diagnosis of breast cancer MCH died, just past sixty. The cancer had spread to her brain.
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.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 105

Biography

MCH 's husband legally changed his name so that their son would bear both surnames.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 104

Birth and Family

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