JM
married seventeen-year-old Mary Powell
, after visiting her father at Forest Hill, Oxfordshire, in pursuit of a debt owed to his own father.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production
Anne Manning
AM
's first major historical novel appeared anonymously: The Maiden & Married Life of Mary Powell, Afterwards Mistress Milton. Framed as a journal kept by the poet John Milton
's first wife, it remains her best-known work.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
