Mary Roberts (author)

Mary Roberts (author)

Mary Roberts (1788–1864) was an English author.

Life

Roberts, born at Homerton, London, on 18 March 1788, was daughter of Daniel Roberts, a merchant of London, by his wife Ann, daughter of Josiah Thompson of Nether Compton, Dorset; her grandfather was the quaker botanist, Thomas Lawson, and her paternal great-great-grandfather was Daniel Roberts. In 1790 her parents removed to Painswick in Gloucestershire and began to write works on natural history.

Some passages in her Annals of my Village, being a Calendar of Nature for Every Month in the Year (London, 1831, 8vo), fall little short of the descriptive power of Richard Jefferies. Although born and brought up a quaker, Mary Roberts left the society after the death of her father, when she removed with her mother to Brompton Square, London. She died there on 13 January 1864, and was buried in Brompton cemetery.

Some confusion has arisen between Miss Roberts and a cousin of the same name, Mary Roberts, daughter of Samuel Roberts (1763–1848) of Sheffield, author of Royal Exile, 1822.[1]

Works

Besides her Annals Miss Roberts published (in London) many works of similar character. The chief are:

  • Select Female Biography, 1821, 12mo.
  • The Wonders of the Vegetable Kingdom displayed in a Series of Letters, 1822, 12mo; 2nd edit. 1824, 12mo.
  • Sequel to an Unfinished Manuscript of H. Kirke White's, to illustrate the Contrast between the Christian's and the Infidel's Close of Life, London, 1823, 8vo.
  • The Conchologist's Companion, 1824, 12mo; another edit. 1834, 8vo.
  • An Account of Anne Jackson, with particulars concerning the Plague and Fire in London, edited by M. R., 1832, 12mo.
  • Domesticated Animals considered with reference to Civilisation and the Arts, 1833, 8vo.
  • Sister Mary's Tales in Natural History, 1834, 8vo.
  • The Seaside Companion, or Marine Natural History, 1835, 8vo.
  • Wild Animals, their Nature, Habits, and Instincts, with Incidental Notices of the Regions they Inhabit, 5th edit. 1836, 8vo.
  • The Progress of Creation considered with reference to the Present Condition of the Earth, early, in prose and poetry,’ 1845, 8vo.
  • Voices from the Woodlands, descriptive of Forest-trees, Ferns, Mosses, and Lichens, 1850, 4to.
  • A Popular History of the Mollusca, with coloured plates engraved by W. Wing, 1851, 4to.

She edited Ann Taylor's The Present of a Mistress to a Young Servant, by Ann Taylor, in 1851.

References

  1. ^  Smith, Charlotte Fell (1896). "Roberts, Mary". In Sidney Lee. Dictionary of National Biography. 48. London: Smith, Elder & Co. "citing: [Jackson's Guide to Literature of Botany, 1881; Smith's Catalogue, ii. 500; Ann. Monitor, 1832, p. 40; Montgomery's Life, vii. 123, 288; Registers at Devonshire House; Fosbrooke's Hist. of Gloucestershire, ii. 484; Brit. Mus. Cat.]" 
Attribution

 "Roberts, Mary". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 


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