She published it as Miss S., through her father
's firm, and dedicated it to the king
. She put out a second edition in 1817, as The Mirror of the Mind, and Other...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Stockdale
MS
's father, John Stockdale
, having been acquitted for publishing a libel (attacking the House of Commons
over Warren Hastings
), himself printed The Whole Proceedings on the Trial . . . against John Stockdale.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
70 (1790): 582
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Stockdale
MS
's father, John Stockdale
, also became well-known as a publisher, conspicuous and not entirely reputable. He had worked as a blacksmith and a valet before coming to London and finding work in some...
Publishing
Mary Stockdale
MS
published for the Author, through her father
's firm
, a work which had first appeared in the Morning Post: The Widow and Her Orphan Family, An Elegy.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 1 (1812): 112
Textual Production
Mary Stockdale
MS
published her poetry volume The Effusions of the Heart through the firm of her fatherJohn Stockdale
; this was apparently her earliest publication.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 22 (1798): 352
Textual Production
Mary Stockdale
MS
(as Miss Stockdale) issued through her father
's firmThe Family Book; or, Children's Journal, translated from the French of Arnaud Berquin
, Interspers'd with Poetical Pieces written by the Translator...
Textual Production
Hester Lynch Piozzi
She had been working on this, or something like it, for a decade.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
379
She and John Stockdale
, her publisher, wanted badly to have the book in the shops on New Year's Day for...
Wealth and Poverty
Mary Stockdale
The death of MS
's father
made a sad change . . . in her affairs, and left her to support her aged Widowed Mother and herself.
Stockdale, Mary. A Wreath for the Urn. Mary Stockdale, 1818.