Mary Alcock

Standard Name: Alcock, Mary

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Leisure and Society Henrietta Maria Bowdler
As a young woman HMB was capable of attending the opera and whenever there was dancing on stage keeping her eyes shut the whole time, [since] it was so indelicate she could not bear to...
Occupation Anna Miller
The Batheaston Vase was important in several literary careers, notably those of Anna Seward, Jane Bowdler, and Mary Alcock. Other winners, like Jane Johnson's daughter Barbara, seem never to have...

Timeline

1799: The year after Mary Alcock (sister of the...

Women writers item

1799

The year after Mary Alcock (sister of the playwright Richard Cumberland) died, one of her nieces published her Poems, to which Elizabeth Carter and Hannah More, among others, subscribed.
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.

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