Mary Meeke

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Mary Meeke was a prolific author of around 30 novels during the early 19th century, and is believed to have died in October 1816.

She sometimes used the pseudonym 'Gabrielli', and probably married a clergyman and poet, the Reverend Francis Meeke (B.A. 1773, M.A. 1776, Cambridge). Her novels include: The Abbey of Cluny, The Mysterious Wife, Anecdotes of the Altamont Family, and Which is the Man?.

"Our public schools," Mary Meeke said in her time, "are mere hot-beds for the encouragement of vice and dissipation, which flourish in still greater perfection at college; and as for the grand tour, "why, half those who undertake it return greater fools than they set out".

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• R. MAGNANI. The Mysterious Mrs Meeke: A Biographical and Bibliographical Study, Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text 9 (Dec 2002)].