Her close friends also included Sir Richard
and Lady Bedingfield
, a Catholic couple living in Sydney Place, London. Sarah Wedgwood
(wife of Josiah) wrote to a third party of MAS
's charming and...
Occupation
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
In addition to her anti-slavery activity, MAS
pursued serious scientific interests. She sat on the committee of a Bristol scientific society for which she arranged a visiting lecturer on the physiology of plants, and had...
Londoner Isabella Rushton Preston
published anonymously, through John Murray
, her Handbook of Familiar Quotations from English Authors. This became a leading source for the better-known, American Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1855.
Shapiro, Fred R. “Anonymous was a Woman”. Yale Alumni Magazine, Jan.–Feb. 2011.
