George Simon second Earl Harcourt

MH 's brother-in-law, Simon Harcourt, later the second earl , was married to Elizabeth , née Vernon, 1746-1826, who was a life-writer (like Mary), a social poet, and a collector of manuscript verse. This couple...

CF composed what eventually became one of the best-known of her little-known poems; it was later entitled Epistle to Earl Harcourt , on his wishing her to spell the name of Catherine with a K.