Author: McMullan, Mary Anne
Title: The Naiad's Wreath
Date: 1816
Biographical Information
I have been able to locate very little biographical information regarding Mary Anne (or Maryanne) McMullan in my research. There may well be sources of information in local or national archives in Britain, but I have been unable to trace any such sources in the course of my research. What little I have found mostly regards her work. It is stated on the title page of her work, The Crescent, that she was the widow of a naval man. It is also known that this personal loss caused her a great deal of financial distress, since she had to find a way to support her children, mother, and aunt with the money she made writing. The Wanderings of a Goldfinchwas her first published work, and was apparently regarded highly, with members of the royal family and many famous authors such as Joanna Baillie, Lord Byron, Amelia Opie, and William Wordsworth apparently reading it. In her hardest financial times, McMullan supposedly taught and tutored young girls and may have had her cottage essentially repossessed.
SOURCES:
Johns-Putra, Adeline. “Nineteenth Century Gender Studies.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies: Issue 2.3 (Winter 2006), 2006, www.ncgsjournal.com/issue23/johns.htm
Prepared by Marisa Rogers, University of Nebraska, Spring 2018
© Marisa Rogers, 2018