MJY
has been credited with the sentimental, anti-war Horatio and Amanda. A Poem, by a Young Lady, 1777 (second edition 1788). The British Library
copy of the first edition has Miss Mary Young written...
Textual Production
Mary Julia Young
The Miss Mary Young who published under this name Innocence: An Allegorical Poem, 1790, was also Mary Young (later Sewell)
, though OCLC WorldCat attributes it to MJY
.
Literary responses
Anna Seward
Mary (Young) Sewell
praised the author in a poem beginning O Thou! whoe'er thou art—Oh Bard divine! Since she did not know AS
's identity, she may have written her poem in the months before...
Friends, Associates
Catherine Fanshawe
CF
's friends included other highly literate middle-class women such as Mary Berry
and Anne Grant
in Edinburgh. (Her friendship with Grant was maintained entirely by correspondence—she and her sisters hoped to visit Edinburgh in...
