Anne Damer
had been encouraging MB
to keep working on her play as early as December 1793. In December 1795 it was complete enough for her to show it to a friend, the mathematician John Playfair
Textual Production
Melesina Trench
MT
printed through J. Ridgway
(brother-in-law of her earliest publisher) A Monody on the Death of Mr. Grattan
CN
published, for private circulation, a pamphlet entitled Observations on the Natural Claim of the Mother to the Custody of her Infant Children, as affected by the Common Law Right of the Father.
