Mary Ann Burges

The closest friend of EPS at the time of her husband's death was Mary Ann Burges , who is remembered for the informed interest in the natural world which she shared with Simcoe. They had...

Her diary survives in three forms: brief notes (with sketches) made wherever she was in the bush, and two accounts written up later, one for Ann Hunt (who had charge of her elder children in...

In addition to Catharine Cappe 's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy , the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...

Mary Ann Burges 's anonymous The Progress of Pilgrim Good-Intent, in Jacobinical Times was widely supposed (for instance by Hester Piozzi and Lady Eleanor Butler ) to be by Hannah More .

HMB 's letters to Sarah Ponsonby reveal the closeness of their friendship. She sent information, opinion, and verse, some of it probably written by herself. Among books she discussed were Ann Radcliffe 's The Mysteries...