Person DS/UK/3700 Mitford; Mary Russell (1787-1855); author and playwright Mitford Mary Russell Female author and playwright 1787-1855 Born 16 Dec 1787 at 37 Broad Street, Alresford, Hampshire; died 10 Jan 1855 at Swallowfield, Berkshire. After education at M de St Quentin's School in Chelsea (1798-1802) she settled at the family home in Reading, where it had moved after Mary had won £20,000 with a lottery ticket given to her as a 10th birthday present. Poems of hers were first published in 1810. Although she continued to write verse and prose for magazines, in the 1820s she took up the writing of plays at the suggestion of Coleridge. She specialised in historical tragedies. She stopped writing plays in the late 1830s, but her prose work continued to be well received. Daughter of George Mitford (or Midford) and Mary Russell International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Derbyshire Record Office Collections Manual Section 7 v5.1 (May 2020) Yes DERBYSHIRE\71026502 23/03/2021 DERBYSHIRE\71026502 23/03/2021 97e83505-fdfd-4968-b847-710766aeb0a0