Mary Martin

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Standard Name: Martin, Mary
Birth Name: Harriet Mary Letitia Martin
Married Name: Harriet Mary Letitia Bell
Nickname: Princess of Connemara
Married Name: Mrs Martin Bell
Married Name: Mrs Bell Martin
MM produced during her short, mid-nineteenth-century career, two novels and a few pieces of journalism. Her novel Julia Howard conveys her love of Ireland and a powerfully rendered sense of dispossession and persecution resulting from the loss of her family's estate.

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16 June 1824: The first meeting of the Society for the...

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16 June 1824

The first meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (later the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or RSPCA) took place in London.
French, Richard D. Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society. Princeton University Press, 1975.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

28 July 1849: The Encumbered Estates Act began to rationalize...

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28 July 1849

The Encumbered Estates Act began to rationalize Irish land titles, in a move towards English-style capitalist land ownership.
MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2024.
“Encumbered Estates”. The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland: Records.

Texts

Martin, Mary. Julia Howard. Richard Bentley, 1850, 3 vols.
Martin, Mary. Julia Howard. Harper Brothers, 1850.
Martin, Mary. St. Etienne. T. C. Newby, 1845, 3 vols.