Mary Brunton | |
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![]() Mary Brunton, frae the 2nt ed. o Emmeline (1820) | |
Born | Mary Balfour 1 November 1778 |
Dee'd | 7 December 1818 | (aged 40)
Naitionality | Scots |
Thrift | novelist |
Mary Brunton (née Balfour) (1 November 1778 – 7 December 1818) wis a Scots novelist. Her novelles redefine femininity. Fay Weldon praised them as "rich in invention, ripe wi incident, shrewd in comment, an erotic in intention an fact."