Author: McMorine, Mary
Biography:
MCMORINE, Mary (fl 1799)
The title page identifies her as a servant, but a search for biographical information is complicated by the various possible spellings of her surname. The preface states that she had education more limited than usually available to women of her class in Scotland, and that the poems “have been retouched while passing through the press.” Likely the preface was also retouched; it goes on to question whether the poems “lost more in sentiment than they have gained by their being set right with respect to Orthography, and some few false rhymes.” J. Pillans was an established and well-known Edinburgh printing house. SR
Books written (1):
Edinburgh: printed for the author by J. Pillans and Sons, 1799