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Entry Type	Person
Surname	Mitford
Forenames	Mary Russell
Epithet	author and playwright
Dates	1787-1855
Gender Identity	Female
Biography	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.
Key Events	Born 16 Dec 1787 at 37 Broad Street, Alresford, Hampshire; died 10 Jan 1855 at Swallowfield, Berkshire.
Family Tree	Daughter of George Mitford (or Midford) and Mary Russell
Authorised Form of Name	Mitford; Mary Russell (1787-1855); author and playwright

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