Mary Russell Mitford

Novelist, Author

1787 – 1855

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Who was Mary Russell Mitford?

Mary Russell Mitford was an English author and dramatist. She was born at Alresford, Hampshire. Her place in English literature is as the author of Our Village. This series of sketches of village scenes and vividly drawn characters was based upon life in Three Mile Cross, a hamlet in the parish of Shinfield, near Reading in Berkshire, where she lived.

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Born
Dec 16, 1787
New Alresford
Also known as
  • Mary Mitford
Nationality
  • England
Profession
Lived in
  • Reading
  • Sulhamstead
  • Shinfield
  • Swallowfield
Died
Jan 10, 1855

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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