MJY
has been credited with the sentimental, anti-war Horatio and Amanda. A Poem, by a Young Lady, 1777 (second edition 1788). The British Library
copy of the first edition has Miss Mary Young written...
Textual Production
Mary Julia Young
The poem is dedicated by their sincere admirer, the author, to those, whose dramatic excellence suggested it.
Young, Mary Julia. Genius and Fancy; or, Dramatic Sketches. H. D. Symonds and J. Gray.
1792, prelims
MJY
did not claim it with her name until its re-issue with other poems in 1795...
Textual Production
Mary Julia Young
Her title-page lists many of the poems contained in the volume. Once again it bears her name and mentions her authorship of a novel, Rose-Mount Castle. An engraved frontispiece, dated 1 March 1801, shows...