Mary Ann Browne

Mary Ann Browne (afterwards Gray) was the sister of Felicia Hemans. She published her first volume of poems at the age of fifteen and went on to have a successful career as a writer of both prose and verse, publishing frequently in the literary annuals. In 1842 she was married to Mr. James Gray, a nephew of James Hogg; she died in Cork in 1844.

TEXT RECORDS:

1827Mont Blanc.
1827Ocean: gratefully inscribed to Mr. Linfitt of Burnham Academy.

PUBLICATIONS:

Mont Blanc and other poems. 1827.
Ada, and other poems. 1828.
Repentance, and other poems. 1829.
The coronal; original poems. 1833.
The Birth-day gift. 1834.
Ignatia and other poems. 1838.
Sacred poetry. 1840.
Sketches from the antique, and other poems. 1844.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

privately educated

poet
woman writer

The Morning Post
The Literary Gazette
Dublin University Magazine
Forget-Me-Not
Friendship's Offering
Literary Souvenir
Winter's Wreath
The Gem
The Iris
New Year's Gift

Felicia Hemans

REFERENCE:

Not DNB; not NCBEL; CBEL (3rd ed).

Gentleman's Magazine 98 (June 1828) 523-25; Frederic Rowton, Female Poets of Great Britain (1853); Sarah Josepha Hale, Woman's Record (1855); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); C. R. Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839 (1992).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Mary Ann Browne:

1.	1827  Anonymous, in Review of Browne, Mont Blanc and other Poems; The Literary Gazette (18 August 1827) 530.
2.	1828  Anonymous, Review of Browne, Mont Blanc, and Ada; Gentleman's Magazine 98 (June 1828) 523-24.
3.	1829  John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (December 1829); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 415-16.
4.	1852  Mary Russell Mitford, in "Female Poets. Miss Blamire. — Mrs. James Gray" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 222-27.
5.	1855  Sarah Josepha Hale, Woman's Record; or, Sketches of all Distinguished Women (1852; 1855) 228.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Mary Ann Browne:

1.	1853  Frederic Rowton, in Female Poets of Great Britian (1853) 472.
2.	1854  Robert Shelton Mackenzie, Note in Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 3:416n.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1829  Samuel Rogers:   Mary Ann Browne, "Lines written in a Blank Leaf of Rogers' Pleasures of Memory" Morning Post (6 November 1829).