Career
She wrote around 30 novels published by the Minerva Press during the early 19th century, and is believed to have died around October 1826. She sometimes used the pseudonym Gabrielli. Her first published novel was Count Street Blanchard in 1795.
Others include The Abbey of Cluny, The Mysterious Wife, Anecdotes of the Altamont Family, and Which is the Manitoba?.
The third edition of Chamber"s Cyclopaedia of English Literature gave a disparaging assessment of her work:
"Our public schools," Mary Meeke said in her time, "are mere hot-beds for the encouragement of vice and dissipation, which flourish in still greater perfection at college. And as for the grand tour, "why, half those who undertake it return greater fools than they set out".