Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Mary Baker
Standard Name: Baker, Mary,, alias Rowe
Used Form: Thom Tell Truth
Used Form: Mary Unknown
Connections
No connections available.
Timeline
31 December 1729: Mary Unknown, a political pamphleteer also...
Women writers item
31 December 1729
Mary Unknown
, a political pamphleteer also writing as Thom Tell Truth
, was interrogated before Walpole
and Newcastle
about her authorship of a libel entitled A Letter to a Member of Parliament in the North.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.