Mary Meeke
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Mary Meeke was a prolific author of around 30 novels during the early 19th century, and is believed to have died in October 1816.
She sometimes used the pseudonym 'Gabrielli', and probably married a clergyman and poet, the Reverend Francis Meeke (B.A. 1773, M.A. 1776, Cambridge). Her novels include: The Abbey of Cluny, The Mysterious Wife, Anecdotes of the Altamont Family, and Which is the Man?
"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"
Mary Meeke's biography was attempted in:
R. MAGNANI. "The Mysterious Mrs Meeke: A Biographical and Bibliographical Study", Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text 9 (Dec 2002). External link:[1] (http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/corvey/articles/cc09_n04.html)