MA
's husband, the Reverend John Channing
, encouraged her to submit poems to the New Monthly Magazine. These appeared under her initials.
Ashfield, Andrew, editor. Romantic Women Poets. Manchester University Press.
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She also contributed to the Metropolitan (edited by Thomas Campbell
Family and Intimate relationships
Maria Abdy
Maria Smith
married John Channing Abdy
, the rector of a Southwark church (variously given as St John's or St George the Martyr's).
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.
Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press.
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Ashfield, Andrew, editor. Romantic Women Poets. Manchester University Press.