Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny

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Standard Name: Champion de Crespigny, Mary,,, Lady
Birth Name: Mary Clarke
Married Name: Mary Champion de Crespigny
Pseudonym: MCC
Self-constructed Name: Mary Champion Crespigny
Titled: Lady Mary Champion de Crespigny
MLCC used her exalted social position as a patron of writers, especially women writers. She was a habitual diarist (though little of her diary survives) and a writer of occasional poetry—for manuscript circulation, or inscription on landscape features, and at least once for print. She chose print for two longer works: a novel and a conduct-book, 1803, made up of letters addressed to her teenage son in about 1780.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Dedications Anna Maria Porter
AMP published, with her name, her second novel, Octavia, dedicated to Mary Champion de Crespigny .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 758
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 24 (1798): 471
Dedications Mariana Starke
MS made some use of a play by Antoine Marin Le Mierre , La veuve du Malabar. In her version the censor compelled some changes, like watering down the word hell-born (used of suttee)...
Dedications Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
She wrote it before the death of Catharine Macaulay , though it appeared afterwards. Lucy Aikin said she wrote it at about fifteen, which exaggerates her youth by only a year.
The Monthly Repository. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme.
1 n.s., 1827.126
Her...
Dedications Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
SSW dedicated to Mary Champion de Crespigny (as Lady de Crespigny) her second novel, The Fugitive Countess; or, Convent of St. Ursula. A Romance.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 260
Dedications Eliza Parsons
EP 's two-act comedy The Intrigues of a Morning (adapted from Molière 's Monsieur de Pourclaugnac) was produced at Covent Garden . It was printed the same year, dedicated to Mary Champion de Crespigny .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
5: 1447
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Dedications Eliza Parsons
It was in press in late October;
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 593
EP wrote its dedication to Mrs Crespigny , who first encouraged me to commit them to the Public, on 12 November.
Parsons, Eliza. Ellen and Julia. William Lane.
1: prelims
In a humble...

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