Collyer, Mary (d. 1763)

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Collyer, Mary (d. 1763)

English translator and novelist. Name variations: Mary Mitchell Collyer. Born Mary Mitchell, c. 1716, in England; died 1763 in London, England; m. Joseph Collyer.

Translated texts from German and French, including Pierre Marivaux's The Virtuous Orphan; or, the life of Marianne, Countess of … (1735), S. Gessner's The Death of Abel (1761), and F.G. Klopstock's Messiah (1763); also wrote epistolary novel Felicia to Charlotte (1744).

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