Mary More

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An amateur writer of the mid-seventeenth century (as well as a painter) who could also turn her hand to verse, MM left two surviving, unpublished works, both entirely forgotten until very recently. The now better-known of the two is a serious assertion of women's rights.

Milestones

1633

Mary Tyther, later MM , was born to parents living in Bread Street, in the City of London.
Makin, Bathsua et al. Educating English Daughters. Editors Teague, Frances et al., Iter Academic Press; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
99

Late 1660s

MM wrote for her little daughterElizabeth her proto-feminist treatise, The Womans Right.
Ezell, Margaret J. M. The Patriarch’s Wife. University of North Carolina Press.
191-203

1713-May 1715

MM must have died some time between these two dates: after her son made his will, and before it was proved.
Ezell, Margaret J. M. The Patriarch’s Wife. University of North Carolina Press.
145-6 and nn

Biography

Birth and Family

1633

Mary Tyther, later MM , was born to parents living in Bread Street, in the City of London.
Makin, Bathsua et al. Educating English Daughters. Editors Teague, Frances et al., Iter Academic Press; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
99

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