Barber, Mary (c. 1690–1757)
Barber, Mary (c. 1690–1757)
Irish poet. Name variations: (pseudonym) Sapphira. Born c. 1690 in Ireland; died 1757 in Dublin; m. Jonathan Barber; children: 4, including Constantine Barber (president of Irish College of Physicians).
Encouraged in 1730s by Jonathan Swift to publish poetry, wrote Poems on Several Occasions (1734); poems also appeared in collections Poems by Eminent Ladies (1755), Brookiana (1804) and Eighteenth-Century Women Poets (1989).
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