AMS
's first husband, William Skinn
, petitioned for divorce in the ecclesiastical court, on grounds of her adultery with Matthew Browne
.
Staves, Susan. “Matrimonial Discord in Fiction and in Court: The Case of Ann Masterman”. Fetter’d or Free?: British Women Novelists 1670-1815, edited by Cecilia Macheski and Mary Anne Schofield, Ohio University Press, 1986, pp. 169-85.