Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore

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MEBCS , an upper-class eighteenth-century eccentric, has been famous chiefly as a marital victim. But her writings (both her tragedy and her highly imaginative autobiography) reflect some literary skill, as well as a highly unusual cast of mind.

Milestones

24 February 1749

Mary Eleanor Bowes (later Countess of Strathmore ) was born at Gibside House near Gateshead in County Durham, a sixteenth-century family house. She remained an only child.
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.
Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton.
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28 April 1800

Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore , died, aged fifty-one, at Christchurch in Hampshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Family

24 February 1749

Mary Eleanor Bowes (later Countess of Strathmore ) was born at Gibside House near Gateshead in County Durham, a sixteenth-century family house. She remained an only child.
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.
Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton.
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