Frances Owen

Frances Owen (née Ridge) who edited and wrote an introductory testimony for MM 's Fruits of Retirement, 1702, was her first cousin: the only child, she says, of the brother of Mollineux's mother. Neither...

Frances Owen expressed pride in the many poems and letters addressed to herself. She felt that verse was too much abused by the extravagant Wits of the Age (though in this same volume both Tryall Ryder

This (the third of the tenth month) was the date of the earliest letter written by Mary Southworth (later Mollineux) to her cousin Frances Ridge (later Owen) and included by Frances as editor in Fruits...

Her cousin Frances Owen (who is generally Cousin F. R. or Kinswoman F. R. in the table of contents) wrote a prefatory testimony (dated from Reigate) and a verse introduction. Others who wrote testimonies were...