Ann Masterman
married the attorney William Skinn
, who according to her fictional portrait of him three years later proved to be the greatest brute in nature.
qtd. in
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, 1990.
Staves, Susan. “Matrimonial Discord in Fiction and in Court: The Case of Ann Masterman”. Fetter’d or Free?: British Women Novelists 1670-1815, edited by Cecilia Macheski and Mary Anne Schofield, Ohio University Press, 1986, pp. 169-85.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Ann Masterman Skinn
AMS
's first husband, William Skinn
, petitioned for divorce in the ecclesiastical court, on grounds of her adultery with Matthew Browne
.
Staves, Susan. “Matrimonial Discord in Fiction and in Court: The Case of Ann Masterman”. Fetter’d or Free?: British Women Novelists 1670-1815, edited by Cecilia Macheski and Mary Anne Schofield, Ohio University Press, 1986, pp. 169-85.