Bennett, Anna Maria (c. 1750–1808)

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Bennett, Anna Maria (c. 1750–1808)

British novelist. Name variations: Agnes Bennett. Born Anna Maria Evans, c. 1750, in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales (or Bristol); died Feb 12, 1808, in Brighton, Sussex, England; dau. of David Evans (Bristol grocer); married a tanner.

Championed women intellectuals and members of the underclass in such works as Anna, or, Memoirs of a Welch Heiress, Interspersed with Anecdotes of a Nabob (1785), Juvenile Indiscretions, a Novel (1786) and The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors (1797).

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