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Author: Cookson, Mary Ann

Biography:

COOKSON, Mary Ann (fl 1829)

No reliable biographical information has been located. The preface to her book of sentimental verse is dated from Edinburgh and states that she wrote the poems between the ages of fourteen and twenty. One of the poems suggests that she was married, in which case her birth surname is unknown. The book concludes with a brief list of subscribers and a note that “several hundreds” had patronised the work. David Sillar (q.v.) was a subscriber. SR

 

Other Names:

  • M. A. Cookson
 

Books written (3):

Leith: printed by William Heriot, 1829
2nd edn. Leith: printed by William Heriot, 1829
3rd edn. Leith: printed by William Heriot, 1829