ML
worked as a kitchen-maid for Susanna Jennens
of Weston Hall, Northamptonshire (daughter of Sir John Blencowe
, who had employed her father).
Greene, Richard. Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry. Clarendon Press, 1993.
10-11
Jennens herself wrote verse (like her mother). She encouraged ML
's...
Friends, Associates
Mary Leapor
Freemantle (whose father was a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, as well as a former rector of Hinton) had seen some of ML
's work two or three years before they became friends.
Greene, Richard. Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry. Clarendon Press, 1993.
18-19
Leapor, Mary. “Introduction”. Poems, edited by Ann Messenger and Richard Greene, 2003.
