Background
She was born 28 October 1780 at Marnham, Nottinghamshire or Goadby Marwood, Leicestershire.
She was born 28 October 1780 at Marnham, Nottinghamshire or Goadby Marwood, Leicestershire.
She started writing small poems in 1802. An uncritical account, it had no competitors until 1972. She retired with Major Cartwright"s widow to live at Worthing, and published her poems there anonymously, in a little volume, Poems, chiefly Devotional, dated 13 November 1835.
Her translations of Riego"s poems appeared, with her initials, in the poet"s Obras Póstumas Poéticas (1844).
She died at Brighton on 13 January 1863, aged 83.