Mary More

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Standard Name: More, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Tyther
Married Name: Mary Waller
Married Name: Mary More
An amateur writer of the mid-seventeenth century (as well as a painter) who could also turn her hand to verse, MM left two surviving, unpublished works, both entirely forgotten until very recently. The now better-known of the two is a serious assertion of women's rights.

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Family and Intimate relationships Hannah More
Hannah's elder sisters were Mary , Elizabeth , and Sarah or Sally; the younger was Martha or Patty. When they lived together, each played a particular role and offered some particular contribution to the family...
Family and Intimate relationships Hannah More
The More sisters departed this life in the same order in which they had entered it, with the exception of Hannah. Mary More died on 18 April 1813, Elizabeth on 14 June 1816, Sally on...

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Texts

Makin, Bathsua et al. Educating English Daughters. Editors Teague, Frances et al., Iter Academic Press; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016.
More, Mary, and Robert Whitehall. The Woman’s Right.
More, Mary. To the most Ingenious Mr. Robert Whitehall, Fellow of Merton College in Oxon.