Mary Whateley
first met the Rev. John Darwall
, her future husband, then a married man with two small children (another had died).
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Whateley Darwall
Mary Whateley
married John Darwall
, curate of Walsall, at Beoley (one year and two months after he buried his first wife).
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
80, 83
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Whateley Darwall
MWD
's husband
died; the next day his church salary was sequestered.
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
155, 159
Textual Features
Mary Whateley Darwall
Besides Female Friendship (a vigorous defence of women's capacity for generous constancy) MWD
addressed two poems in 1766 to a Scottish friend, Mrs Hewan
. She wrote a few family pieces, including expressions of anguish...