It is hard to overestimate the importance, for ML
's output and for the survival of her work, of her patron Bridget Freemantle
, who appears in her writing as Artemisia. From September 1745...
Friends, Associates
Mary Leapor
ML
first met Bridget Freemantle
, the clergyman's daughter who became her patron and was instrumental in enabling her to be an author.
Greene, Richard. Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry. Clarendon Press.