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Mary Anne

Daphne du Maurier's novel Mary Anne (1954) is a fictionalised account of the real-life story of her great-great-grandmother, Mary Anne Clarke née Thompson (1776-1852).



see also

1735 in literature

John Oldmixon - the History of England, During the Reigns of William and Mary, Anne, George I

Benjamin Dean

Dean was married to Mary Anne French, daughter of Lowell Mayor Josiah Bowers French and a descendant of the Cotton and Mather families of Massachusetts Bay.

Cothay Manor

The former home of Taunton MP Edward du Cann, in 1993 du Cann sold the property to Alastair and Mary-Anne Robb.

Craig Lodge Community

Craig Lodge, a former hunting lodge in Dalmally, Argyll, Scotland, was run by Calum and Mary Anne MacFarlane-Barrow as a guest house until a pilgrimage to Medjugorje in 1984 gave their lives a new direction.

F. William Free

He married twice, first to Marcella Free (née Jones), and then to Mary Anne Free (née Murry).

Fairfax Cartwright

Cartwright was the eldest son of Lieutenant-General William Cartwright of Flore House, Weedon, Northamptonshire and his wife Mary Anne Jones, only daughter and heiress of Henry Jones.

Frederick St John Newdigate Barne

Barne was the eldest son of Frederick Barne of Sotterley HalI, near Wangford, Suffolk and his wife Mary Anne Elizabeth Honywood, eldest daughter of Sir John Edward Courtenay Honywood, 6th Baronet.

Gordon Gray Currie

He was born in Semans, Saskatchewan, the son of Robert Currie and Mary Anne Pool, and was educated in Saskatchewan, in British Columbia, at Notre Dame Collegiate and at Mount Allison University.

Henry Wigram

His mother was Mary Anne Pomeroy, a daughter of the 5th Viscount Harberton (1790–1862).

John B. Weber

His parents, Philippe Jacob Weber and Mary Anne Weber (née Young), had emigrated to the United States in 1833 from Leutenheim, Alsace and settled in Buffalo.

John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire

He married firstly Mary Anne Drury, daughter of Sir Thomas Drury, 1st Baronet, and secondly Caroline, daughter of William James Conolly, but died without surviving male issue and was succeeded by his half-brother.

La Musica Lirica

Recent conductors, stage directors and vocal faculty include Alberto Zedda, Joseph Rescigno, Candace Evans, Francois Loup, Dejan Miladinovic, Ubaldo Fabbri, Julia Faulkner, Mary Anne Scott, Karen Peeler, John DeHaan, Kathy Kraulik, Brooks Hafey, Robert Breault, Emily Williams, Jeffrey Price and Dennis Jesse.

Lake of Stars Music Festival

2500 people travelled to Senga Bay to see Seth Lakeman, Scratch Perverts, BBC Radio 1’s Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Skitz, Man Like Me, Fabric’s Ali B play, alongside many local African acts.

Mary Anne Atwood

The writer Lindsay Clarke used the story of Thomas South and Mary Anne Atwood as a basis for his novel The Chymical Wedding (1989).

A Suggestive Inquiry was reissued in 1918 under Mary Anne's married name, with an appendix containing her table talk and memorabilia, and with an extensive biographical and philosophical introduction by Walter Leslie Wilmshurst.

Mary Anne Barker

When Barker was knighted for his leadership at the Siege of Lucknow, Mary Anne became "Lady Barker".

Mary Anne Clarke

Her daughter, born of her marriage to Clarke, married Louis-Mathurin Busson du Maurier and was the mother of the caricaturist George du Maurier (1834–96) and the great-grandmother of the novelist Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989), who wrote a book about her (Mary Anne).

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck

When about eighteen Mary Anne visited her cousins, the Gurneys of Earlham, and Catherine Gurney, the eldest daughter, remained her friend through life.

Mary Anne Whitby

Mary Anne Theresa Symonds was born in 1784, the daughter of the Royal Navy officer Captain Thomas Symonds.

Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand

The song has been released in several different versions, sometimes under the title "Mary Anne with the Shaky Hands", also hyphenated (on the MCA LP) as "Mary-Anne with the Shaky Hands".

The Nils covered "Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand" on their 1996 album Green Fields in Daylight.

Popstar!

In 2013, Mary Anne Cassata became Editorial Director and Colleen Broomall was named its new Editor-in-Chief.

Raina Telgemeier

Telgemeier's works include a series of self-published mini-comics called Take-Out, a short story in Bizarro World for DC Comics, a short story in Volume 4 of the Flight anthology,and four graphic novel adaptations of Ann M. Martin's The Baby-sitters Club series for Scholastic/Graphix: Kristy's Great Idea, The Truth About Stacey, Mary Anne Saves the Day, and Claudia and Mean Janine.

Thomas Kingscote

He was the son of Colonel Thomas Henry Kingscote and his second wife, the Honourable Harriott Mary Anne Kingscote, daughter of Lieutenant-General Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield of Ciamaltha, Newport, Tipperary, Ireland.

William Alfred Preston

He was the son of Major Isaac Preston Jr. (New Amsterdam, New York; Amherst Island, ON, Manvers Township, ON, and Vancouver, BC) and Mary Anne Woodside (Bellin, County Londonderry, Ireland, and Amherst Island, ON.)

William Best, 1st Baron Wynford

In 1794, Lord Wynford married Mary Anne, daughter of Jerome Knapp Junior of Chilton in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), Clerk of the Haberdashers' Company, by his second wife, Sarah, daughter and eventual heiress of George Noyes of Southcote, Berkshire, and Andover, Hampshire.

William Best, 2nd Baron Wynford

Wynford was the son of William Best, 1st Baron Wynford, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and his wife, Mary Anne, daughter of Jerome Knapp Junior of Chilton in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), Clerk of the Haberdashers' Company, by his second wife, Sarah, daughter and eventual heiress of George Noyes of Southcote, Berkshire & Andover.

William Yelverton, 4th Viscount Avonmore

He married, secondly, Mrs. Emily Marianne Forbes (née Ashworth), daughter of Maj.-Gen. Sir Charles Ashworth and Mary Anne Rooke, on 26 June 1858, in Trinity Chapel, Edinburgh, Scotland; Emily Forbes, at the time of the marriage, was the widow of Prof. Edward Forbes, the naturalist.