Mary Pilkington
Novelist, Author
1761 – 1839
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Who was Mary Pilkington?
Mary Pilkington was an English novelist and poet.
She was born in Cambridge, England. When her father died, she was aged fifteen, and went to live with her grandfather. The man who had taken over her father's medical practice became Mary's husband in 1786. While he was away working as a naval surgeon, she took work as a governess. Many of her novels were written for children.
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