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 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...
Leisure and Society Anna Margaretta Larpent
On 17 April 1790 AML went to Mary Champion de Crespigny 's private theatre and saw a performance of Mariana Starke 's tragedy The British Orphans. She was at the theatre (a public one...
Publishing Isabella Kelly
Subscribers included John Julius Angerstein , a colonel related to Anne Bannerman , Jemima Kindersley 's husband, Frances Boscawen , Mary Champion de Crespigny , Henrietta Fordyce , Lord Hawke , Countess Lonsdale (the eldest...
Publishing Mary Deverell
Her full title was Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, mostly written in the Epistolary Style, chiefly upon Moral Subjects, And particularly calculated for the Improvement of Younger Minds. It was published in two volumes...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
It was EOB 's uncle by marriage Sir David Ogilvy who introduced her to Mary Champion de Crespigny , dedicatee of The Female Geniad.
This information was privately supplied by scholar Jan Fergus .
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...

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