Meeke, Mary (d. 1816)
Meeke, Mary (d. 1816)
British novelist. Name variations: Mrs. Mary Meeke; (pseudonym) Gabrielli. Born in Staffordshire, England; died 1816 in Staffordshire; m. Reverend Francis Meeke (cleric, died 1801).
Writer of Gothic novels including Count St. Blancard, or the Prejudiced Judge (1795), Anecdotes of the Altamont Family (1800), The Old Wife and the Young Husband (1804), Laughton Priory (1809), The Spanish Campaign; or, The Jew (1815), and The Birthday Present, of Pleasing Tales of Amusement and Instruction (1830); translations include Lobenstein Village by Augustus La Fontaine (1804), Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia by Sophie Cottin (1814), and Solyman and Almena by John Langhorne (1814).
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