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
Publishing Ann Thicknesse
While the title-page says Volume the First, the dedication to Richard Graves (a neighbour near Bath) hopes he will enjoy this second volume because he enjoyed the first.
Thicknesse, Ann. Sketches of the Lives and Writings of the Ladies of France. J. Dodsley, E. and C. Dilly, R. Cruttwell, and T. Shrimpton.
titlepage, iii
Elizabeth Carter is replaced...
Publishing Ann Thicknesse
The first volume has a frontispiece portrait of AT , and the second has a companion piece of her late husband .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 125
The book is dedicated to Fashion Herself,
Thicknesse, Ann. The School for Fashion. Reynell, Debrett and Fores, and Robinson.
1: vi
whom...
Textual Features Sarah Trimmer
In addition to Catharine Cappe 's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy , the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...
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
Publishing Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
One catalogue lists this work as published in 1805. Years later SSW wrote that she had once entertained literary ambitions. It was the patronage of Lady Charlotte Finch that enabled her, when already a seasoned...
Textual Features Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
The dedication mentions de Crespigny 's own literary labours (a conduct book, Letters of Advice from a Mother to her Son, 1780, and a novel, The Pavilion, 1796), as well as the help...

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